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QUOTE (SoxFanForever @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 11:11 PM) Damn, Roflberger just got drilled. Yeah Ben really should've seen that was going to happen before the snap. He almost had his head taken off.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 10:35 PM) Mark2Market?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 09:20 PM) I hate to be the one asking this, anyone know of a place to watch the NFL online? http://www.justin.tv/dazzerz edit: wow, this stream is only 4 or so seconds behind the actual broadcast.

QUOTE (SoxFanForever @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 09:15 PM) Despite the line he has to make some better decisions tonight if they want to win. That sack he too earlier trying to scramble around when he should have thrown it away and then that last pick. I know they aren't doing him any favors on the line though. Yeah Ben does have his head up his ass (I really like him but I think he honestly isn't that bright). I don't know what the hell he was doing on that sack to get out of FG range, he had about 3 separate chances to get rid of it. On the interception the line actually gave him a few seconds to throw and he heaved up a piece of s***.

So watching this game I am reminded of how f***ing terrible the Steelers offensive line is. Roethlisberger somehow succeeds in spite of them. It is legitimately one of the worst in the NFL, and the fact that this team was still able to win the Super Bowl is pretty amazing.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 11:50 AM) Ugh. Entourage has become pretty bad. I'm only watching still because I've invested time in the series. When I was visiting my parents this past summer I was up talking to my dad and he was telling me how great Entourage was and convinced me to watch the season opener with him and it turned out to be boring. He was like "wtf now I look like an idiot."

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 06:06 PM) I like Levin. He screams too much, but he's actually a man with solid ideas behind his talking points unlike others in his profession. Can't hear him screaming through the book pages. lol. My co-worker uses the word "statist" a lot (doesn't really get into using words like "liberal" or "progressive" as pejoratives") and I figure he picked that up from Levin. QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 06:06 PM) Liberty and Tyranny. I have it but have not read it. I will probably read it in the next couple of days though, goodness knows I got time. Yeah that's it. I was reading some reviews on Amazon and they all sounded pretty positive but I figured those were mostly conservatives and fans of his and they'd all be biased. I just want to find a book written by a conservative that sticks to breaking down conservative ideas, when they start bashing I just tune out.

Have any of you here read Levin's book "Conservative Manifesto" (title paraphrased, it's longer but I don't remember what it is)? A co-worker recommended it and he said he does a good job of laying out conservative ideology without all the annoying name-calling and mocking you'd get in a book written by someone like Coulter.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 04:29 PM) At the same time, there’s a love of people on the right who will vote for Wilson simple because he did this. Also, keep in mind Obama is currently, not the most popular guy amongst independents either. I think it’s pretty much status-quo for that race, with the issue being that ample amounts of money and attention will be paid to both sides. Meh those are also people who would never vote for a Democrat under any circumstances. Regarding Obama it's a long time between now and 2012 even though it doesn't seem like it.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 01:38 PM) Alpha...hyperbole is very dangerous for a politician. I will quote 41..."Read my lips, no new taxes." That absolutely killed him in 1992. And using the term "death squad" is even more dangerous. I see what you are saying, but at the same time, changing numbers is much different than getting close to calling your President (and sorry Mrs. Palin, Obama IS YOUR President) and the Democrats, a death squadron. What it is is irresponsible. What was ironic for Bush 41 is that his eventually having to raise taxes ended up being the right thing to do and helped Clinton with the budget in the next decade.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 01:33 PM) If they have the power to determine whether or not you get a specific treatment or drug, do they not have that power, in a round about way? hence the hyperbole. hy⋅per⋅bo⋅le  /haɪˈpɜrbəli/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hahy-pur-buh-lee] –noun Rhetoric. 1. obvious and intentional exaggeration. 2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.” That wasn't hyperbole at all, she was awfully specific (referencing her infant son w/down's syndrome etc.)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 12:12 PM) Actually it is pretty important. People are running around just making up numbers and using that as the basis for why we should destroy our current health care system. It is the center of the whole damned debate. Not really. Does the underlying point change at all, in any meaningful way whether I tell you 30 million or 40 million? Really, does it? It's big, smelly red herring.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 11:20 AM) Just wondering, are these Scare tactics? or honest debate?: ...Our deficit will grow ...More families will go bankrupt ...More businesses will close ...More Americans will lose their coverage ...And more Americans will die Not sure where you're going with this.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 11:34 AM) If you are using different numbers to different audiences, that is pretty telling... Seriously though what the f***. We've been over this weeks ago. The actual number really isn't important enough to argue about like this, the point is made.

Awesome, nobody here is talking about substance of the speech, only semantic dumb s*** and faux outrage at the faux outrage.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 11:42 PM) That was Cheney on the floor of the Senate. lol. I'm not surprised.

On the "annoying facebookers" article I am definitely The Crank.

For what it's worth, not all of these seemed like terrible ideas at the time.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 11:20 PM) "Go F*** yourself!" A pretty much elected official on the floor of the senate. That has to be either McCain or Biden?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 11:20 PM) I guess I am the only one who remembers Bush being booed during the state of the union? I guess I don't understand whatever point you're trying to make. Me, AHB, BigSqwert, Balta, etc. were all present in that joint session of Congress and/or supported people who did that or things like that and/or other things you didn't like so therefore we can't call out Joe Wilson for doing it earlier.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 11:14 PM) Did you catch my post earlier? That clause is not satisfactory to them. I know. I'm just beating a dead horse for the sake of doing it.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 11:12 PM) fixed Yes this, pretty major omission on my part.

lol would've made sense to call out President Obama where he is actually lying. just saying.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 11:05 PM) His has to do with people acting like disrespecting the President is something new in the last 7.5 months. It is a left wing load of crap. Talk about a propaganda machine. Ok, find me a Democratic member of Congress that displayed an open act of disrespect towards President Bush (criticizing policies doesn't count) and I will shut up, otherwise just please stop with the tu quoque ad hominem false equivalencies. I expect this type of behavior from "some guy" but I've never seen an elected official do anything like that in the United States. Show me where I'm wrong.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 10:58 PM) Obama himself has spent the last two years disrespecting Bush, don't feed me that crap. What in the f*** does this have to do with anything