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QUOTE (Soxy @ Mar 1, 2010 -> 04:47 PM) Someone gets an F for the day. . . can I do extra credit?

s*** I totally forgot to post that.

If any of you have ever heard of the book "The Big Con," part of that book talks about how traditional conservatives in national politics got wiped out and replaced by the total hacks running the current Republican party. What's kind of ironic is how there is an entire subculture dedicated to preserving/revising Reagan's image as the perfect Republican, when in reality, Reagan did things that would be considered apostasy in today's party (exhibit 1A: raised taxes more than once). Also a complete and total debunking of their cockamamie-ass ideas that tax cuts always pay for themselves in revenue (Reagan's massive deficits, Clinton's surplus and economic boom after they predicted his tax increases would be a disaster and turn us into a socialist country, Bush's massive deficits after they said his tax cuts would generate a surplus) doesn't embarrass them at all, they just double down and find something else to credit/blame.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 26, 2010 -> 08:37 AM) Oh, so he owed more than the house was worth? In that case, at least he wasn't destroying his own assets. But he was apparently destroying a bank's assets, which will likely land him in court. He said he knows there will probably be a judgment against him, but he didn't want the bank to make money off him.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 25, 2010 -> 10:11 PM) Kind of like Barackus the Great and Harry "the war is lost" Reid? Meh. Harry Reid is... umm yeah Obama's pretty much doing everything he said he was going to do in Afghanistan since he started campaigning. There's a pretty convincing case that the U.S. lost the strategic war in Iraq in terms of the war on terror the moment the first vehicle crossed the berm and everything after that is just reconfiguring the crash site, but I don't feel like making a long post about it and defending the points in it right now.

Being a step-parent is a real pain in the ass.

Well there's some truth in what you're both saying, but they're 2 totally different countries. Yes on a broad, macro type level, they're doing the same thing and changing to a counterinsurgency-based strategy, but in execution there's not really that much the two countries have in common so the ways they go about it are different. There are people in Congress who really do think one is just like the other and all wars are the same (i.e. John McCain) and frankly don't know what they're talking about.

I read another article about this and I found out he actually had another lien on his house for like $365k so it wasn't as simple as just declaring bankruptcy or letting them foreclose.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Feb 25, 2010 -> 05:23 PM) Clear winner. Clear loser. All are sports. All are NOT athletic events. Vice versa...figure skating. VERY athletic, too subjective. Yeah, I don't think a lot of people know how ridiculously hard and physically demanding figure skating actually is.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 10:12 PM) so do puerto rico citizens (business or personal) pay any federal taxes? To say, cover their portion of military protection costs? If they do pay any kind of taxes, its not in the way we do.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 07:54 PM) I linked to a story from her website. IS THE STORY WRONG? What is the problem? How does linking from her website make the underlying story untrue? I do not believe i was defending Malkin. Chill out! Now I know what Balta feels like. I didn't say there was a problem, just that I agreed that Malkin is ridiculous

lol, Duke has a point, Michelle Malkin is a ridiculous screeching weasel, but this is the Republican thread and she's a popular conservative blogger so that is what it is.

^^ Made that way so large states couldn't overpower small states so that check is already there. The modern filibuster is just glorified partisan hackery, the minority party doesn't need any additional protections. 60 senators is a lot. A LOT.

The answer to your question is no.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 12:18 PM) Tweet from journalist friend aamer madhani aamermadhani Just interviewed Ayad Jamal Aldin. Says U.S. will need to stay in #Iraq if Shiite religious parties win #March 7. What do you think lost? I don't understand what he's trying to say. At this point it kind of doesn't even matter to me anymore. There's nothing we can do that can make Iraq any less of the clusterf*** it's eventually going to be.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 03:47 PM) Link I didn't realize that was an Onion article until the last sentence or so.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 01:11 PM) I was referring to soxtalk members. He was cited on several response posts for the "best/favorite politician" thread...or whatever it was called. It's a recent thing, in the last couple of years he's turned into a complete and total hack.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 11:13 PM) Except for us... in the Lake Effect belt. We haven't had much at all this year. One bad week, that is pretty much it, except we are looking at maybe getting a foot tomorrow. Yeah, that's really f***ing odd. This snowfall will probably put us at something like 75 or 80 inches this season. We've had more snow than Buffalo.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 11:13 PM) No offense to you, but does anyone really not know this by now? I know Rooftop was joking but really you'd be surprised.

Yeah pretty much everybody's had way more snow than normal this year all over the country.

lol, yeah, I forgot to come in this thread earlier. Really f***ing stupid.

The worst of it is gonna miss us this time. We've basically shattered every record there is this year.

Before seeing this article yesterday I actually thought he'd already quit drinking, and that he was a recovering alcoholic (or, as one would say, an alcoholic).

I honestly have no idea what in the hell you're talking about Kap. Who is "they"?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 12:05 PM) So Funny: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Rage Within the Machine - Progressivism www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis I noticed Glenn Beck is left-handed. You know who else is left-handed? You guessed it: Barack Obama. Hmm... Oh and LOL at him talking about Prohibition being part of some "progressive" plot to limit choices. That is some straight religious right nonsense there. Find me a dyed-in-the-wool progressive that thinks we should ban alcohol? Anybody. Just one. I'll wait.