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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 11:26 AM) If Balta ran for office I'd contribute just so I can b**** that he accepts campaign contributions from advocates of the Health Insurance industry. I lol'd.

Sweet ass thread.

lol. That's funny as s***.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 18, 2010 -> 07:35 PM) Kap, we're poking fun because you use the "it's the same thing!" response to plenty of cases where it clearly is not or the "it's always different" to cases that are strikingly similar. This is, as far as I can tell, just another dubious-but-legal method, just like we've magically come to require 60 vote majorities in the Senate. ^^

Man I just saw a car accident as I was coming home from work, I saw a kid (looked like he was about 9 and looked like he was lost or something) trying to cross the street I was trying to turn onto, and another car approaches the intersection from the right and tries to turn right,and another car was passing me on the right and going through the yellow and wanted to merge right at the same time. The car changing lanes in front of me hit the car that was trying to turn, and all of this pushes the collision back to where the kid was standing and he goes literally flying, must have been like 15 feet and he ends up on the curb across the street. I'm trying to figure out how it hit the kid hard enough to do that since the main force was from the car's velocity as it was going thru the yellow and that was going away from the kid. Anyway I was actually on the phone at the time and I saw all of this about to happen, like it was in slow motion so I yell "HOLY s***" and hang up and get ready to call 911 but a couple of others were already on the phone talking to the dispatcher. I got out and went to go see if I could help the kid, I still remember some first aid from the Army but fortunately the fire station is literally across the street and they got to him almost immediately. From what I could see though, he was sobbing so he was obviously breathing, he wasn't bleeding, and he didn't seem to have any damage to his limbs, so he should (knock on wood) be ok... that was still really jarring to see and I can't get the image out of my head yet.

lol, I wanted to do that but it's already been done so...

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 11:54 PM) Then you don't get out much... Torii on what he said was stupid, especially how he actually worded it, but as lost said... he's 100% right on this one. Funny thing is, lost is black and I'm half black and we agree on this.. I'm actually a half-breed too

Yeah, it doesn't help, but the nationwide infrastructure is already there (fiber-optic, etc) and that's the easy part, the hard part is delivering it to homes, and we only just started.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 09:19 PM) ?? What'd I miss? He's talking about how Texas textbooks are going to emphasize the decline of the dollar and the move off the gold standard (kind of ignores all the other reasons that happened and was necessary to do)

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 09:20 PM) Yes and no. John McCain certainly isn't 1994 breed. But he's a douchbag anyway. Yeah he kind of belatedly joined that group when he decided sometime around 2006 that he wanted to run for president. Didn't work, obviously.

Blame it on whoever, but the government pretty much did nothing at all whereas those other countries that are WAY out front now pushed a broadband policy of some kind, maybe not as aggressively as Japan, but at least they did something. Here we assumed the picture would paint itself. It never did.

Nobody ever remembers. I sometimes get idealistic and I think they will, but they won't. History (especially recent) is revisionist, people remember it the way they want to.

Kap I can say with high confidence that probably 90% of people don't know, or even care, about anything that was talked about in the last 2 pages of this thread. Later on, nobody is going to remember this just like nobody remembers all of the other times it happened. My point.

I was in the military, if that counts for anything (it doesn't and my opinion is no different than yours) but I don't see how it's disrespectful. If you refuse to stand, then yes, you're kind of an asshole, and you'll get flak for it, and deservedly so. At the same time, God Bless America is NOT the National Anthem and shouldn't get the same treatment. It's just a patriotic song, take it or leave it. At Orioles home games, on the line "O say does that..." the crowd yells "O!" for the first syllable, I don't think that's disrespectful either but people from Boston and New York do... I wonder why

We had no national broadband policy and we left it to private industry or whatever the hell, and look: http://gizmodo.com/5390014/internet-speeds...-shown-visually For as technologically advanced as we are, that kind of sucks. Japan and S. Korea especially are just b****-slapping everybody else and paying a fraction of the cost for it. That's where we need to be but we're kind of running in place behind everyone else.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 07:33 PM) I sure as hell don't see myself as a part of a "movement". I just want to be left the hell alone. And I think most people do. I don't mean voters, I mean mainstream politicians and the support structure around it. If you look at the positions of each conservative in government they are almost all exactly the same because they all revolve around the same philosophy. For example who is the last Republican to vote for a tax increase since 1994?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 07:25 PM) Who give a s*** who did it? Article I, section 7 is pretty damn clear. About what exactly? (That's about as specific the Constitution gets on how exactly the House and Senate should do business, to my knowledge.) The entire thing is a big f***ing mess so it's hard to say.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 02:42 PM) OK, I think I have a better understanding of this now. Sneaky, but, still basically follows the rules of reconciliation, so its legal. Ultimately, I'm not sure I even agree with the Reconciliation process, but that's a seperate discussion. Congress makes its own rules, I mean whoever the minority party is might not like it, but they kind of can do whatever the f*** they want. The Republicans did this too, extensively, when they were in power, so they really don't have much credibility on the issue.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 15, 2010 -> 11:18 AM) Why? The Democrats have been doing all kinds of things to people who aren't falling into party lines, including the worst punishment of all, trying to get them out of office by running other people against them. I know that isn't the popular theme, but its not like they are standing by and just accepting people not following marching orders. There are plenty of pissed of Dems too. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 15, 2010 -> 11:21 AM) It depends on who you define as "The Democrats" and whether you focus on the ones in office, who come to the defense of their brethren against primary challengers (it worked great when they defended Lieberman, I tells ya) or the actual people on the ground or outside groups (i.e. Moveon). There's a reason why the Republicans are able to keep single voters from supporting an opposing president's legislation while 30% of the Dems would wind up breaking ranks to vote with the Republicans on stuff Bush wanted, and it's not "they might face a primary", both sides have that threat starting to work right now. I've been trying to say this for a while but I never manage to get it out b/c it's always in the middle of a rant about something else but that's one of the fundamental differences between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives (in politics, just about all of them, and it includes media, think tanks, donors, etc.) all see themselves as part of a "movement." You'll never hear a Democratic politician talking about a "liberal movement" because there is none, just people with different ideas about how the government should function and they don't always align with each other. This is why Republicans can do anything with near-total cohesion and Democrats are always a clusterf***.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 07:29 PM) Important nationally because Texas is a very large consumer of textbooks, and thus it sets many of the standards for the rest of the country. Things that are in the new Texas board of education standards: "Describe the causes and key organizations and individuals of the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schafly, the Contract with America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the National Rifle Association" "analyze the decline of the U.S. dollar including abandonment of the gold standard." ""laws of nature and nature's God" (Direct quotes) Also in there, an analysis of the book "The road to Serfdom", a major libertarian text. Things stripped out of this version: Thomas Jefferson. The entire word "Democratic". There's at least 1 more hearing on these. The sad thing is...this version is probably an improvement on the last one. Seriously though how in the f*** do you teach American history without Thomas Jefferson, you know the guy that wrote that... umm... what's it called... oh the Declaration of Independence? I actually know the answer, it's because, despite the fact that they've insisted it for years, Jefferson didn't intend for this to be a "Christian nation" and they're replacing him with pre-Enlightenment figures that are more sufficiently religious so they can make kids think that is where our political philosophy comes from. However... umm no. They're just Photoshopping history. I really don't mind kids being taught that this is a republic (because it is) but it's pretty foul to completely remove references to "democracy" or us being "democratic," that is pretty naked partisan politics. It would be too much to ask why the Democratic party has that name and the Republican party has theirs (the fact that today's Republican party doesn't resemble any kind of actual conservative principles notwithstanding) though. That's "liberal bias" or something. The more I think about this the more pissed off I get.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 15, 2010 -> 10:11 AM) Yes, I understand that saying Grayson and Palin are equally douchy is trolling. Looks like someone needs to go look up what trolling actually is. Fail. Honestly you are free to post this comment, but by virtue of where it is, you need to be expecting a certain kind of response and/or shouldn't expect anyone to really take your comment seriously.

I'm not a big fan of Pelosi (for reasons other than conservatives hate her - a liberal wants to do liberal things in government OMG!) but she is one of a handful of Democrats with any balls.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 09:53 PM) I searched Google regarding this. According to a Raiders fans website, this was reported on NFL Live back in July of '09 by Tim Hasselbeck. So it's true then? That sounds about right because July '09 was when all those stories were coming out about how stupid and lazy he was.

Oh and btw the more I read about Ben Roethlisberger's latest shenanigans the more I think this one is legit - much more so than the last time - and he could actually be in trouble. Also check out these tidbits: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/...ads-on-big-ben/

I'll re-emphasize that it's just a rumor I heard, but I really wouldn't have a hard time believing it because it fits in with everything we've heard about him before, and why he is a failure in the NFL so far. He just doesn't take care of business. Physically, he's everything you could possibly want, it's in his head though.