EvilMonkey

“If you love me, you’ve got to help me pass this bill!” Really?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2011 -> 01:44 PM) Will Texas use less electricity because of these closures? Or will those jobs perhaps be picked up through increased production at other facilities, due to the constant demand for electricity? Does it really matter? If there actually WOULD be increased overtime, or hires, it wouldn't offset the 500 jobs lost, but only a portion of them. That still leaves more people without jobs. It was asked for, and here is a specific regulation that is going to cost jobs.

QUOTE (VictoryMC98 @ Sep 10, 2011 -> 09:13 PM) More talking points.. Name the exact regulations that have put into place since the economy took a dive.. that is a burden. . Here is one for ya. 500 jobs, poof! Gone. http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/12/epa-regu...nates-500-jobs/

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 10:18 AM) I've always thought it's better to start the year off a little slow and build your average up as you go. It really sucks when you start really good and end up with a high average that you'll never be able to maintain. When I got my 300, it was the first day of the season. I ended up with a 232 average. I think I ended the season closer to 180. Did something similar a few years back, had a 290, 259 and 222 on the second week, shot that average way up. I don't think I broke 200 again that year for months after that.

QUOTE (VictoryMC98 @ Sep 11, 2011 -> 10:14 PM) You watch allot of fox "news" don't you? Do you own a business? because I did for a number of years, and I know the number of rules and regulations that are needed to be followed. Even little things like 'Franchisee licenses' and all the paperwork small businesses need to go thru to be incorporated, the tax form that are way too long and so on. I know first hand about hiring and firing people because I have done it. In my current position we need to purchase a new piece of equipment, but are waiting because we don't know what the future will hold. Every time a politician opens their mouths, the stock market dives. I have 2 funeral homes as major customers, and they are BOTH concerned about new regulations that MAY be coming down regarding cremations. I looked for what those could be online and cant find anything, but they seem to think there is something being proposed somewhere. I have a hospice as a customer that has to have 28 different forms to fill out to comply with various government regulations. While that is good for me, as I get to print them, it costs them a lot of money. Businesses are worried, despite your worrying about a CEO paycheck or three. The head of every company is not like compensated like Jeffrey R. Immelt.

QUOTE (VictoryMC98 @ Sep 11, 2011 -> 10:14 PM) You watch allot of fox "news" don't you? You play with yourself in the dark a lot, don't you? And no, I do not watch Fox news, nor cnn.

QUOTE (VictoryMC98 @ Sep 10, 2011 -> 09:13 PM) More talking points.. Name the exact regulations that have put into place since the economy took a dive.. that is a burden. You know why companies are hurting, CEO's getting 8 figure bonuses, then go.. Opps we are hurting. We give tax breaks to companies, who then ship jobs overseas.. I see it in my business all the time. Its not the GOV job to figure out corp finance. And its both sides BTW.. I love the talking point that the gov caused the banks to hand out risky loans.. Showcased exactly the wording that states.. As a Bank, you have to give out a 400.000 loan to a guy making 30k a year. Its the Banks own fault, plain and simple. You speak in generalities, yet demand minute specifics when anyone says anything you disagree with. There is no one regulation that started the economic nosedive. You are an idiot for thinking so or demanding that there be one. As for the loans being 'the banks own fault, plain and simple', are you absolving the idiots who TOOK the loans that they couldn't afford of any blame? IN 2004, Barney Frank said ""I believe that we, as the Federal Government, have probably done too little rather than too much to push them to meet the goals of affordable housing." He went further: "I would like to get Fannie and Freddie more deeply into helping low-income housing." And that he did. Even Obama was in on the act back when he was with Acorn, suing banks for supposedly redlining applicants, forcing them to loosen standards in order to 'comply'. And you Do know that he is on the House committee charged with oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But I guess that doesnt carry any weight with the banks in question. Yup, it is all the banks fault, no pressure there from the people that oversee you. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business...ge-lending.html

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 10, 2011 -> 04:32 PM) Dust can be a ridiculously hazardous substance and a major contributor to breathing issues. Keeping dust under control has been a major part of the clean air act. Dust generated by dry land out west was one of the largest contributors to U.S. air pollution before the city of L.A. was forced to give back some of its water to keep it wet. And as the Wall Street Journal put it about the federal regulation requiring tractor drivers to get a commercial license, "There is no such regulation." I'm impressed that at least 1 of the regulations you complained about was in fact real. Usually we get the rants about how Obama was mean to wall street by only giving them a trillion dollars rather than taking them over. You are correct the CDL and dust one are not regulations, for now. but they were proposed and would be if enough people didn't b**** about it. And simply putting forth those as serious proposals is enough to give businesses the jitters when it comes to investing. i swear we need to go back to part time legislators as they come up with more and more crap just to justify their paychecks.

QUOTE (VictoryMC98 @ Sep 10, 2011 -> 03:37 PM) So your plan is don't do anything.. and Hope things will Change? As for the Bolded statement.. What exactly are you talking about ? And lastly, we have been doing nothing for a while.. which is why we are here. Yes, he is talking about the government getting the hell out of the way and letting business alone. Regulations upon regulations add massive amounts of financial burden to businesses, most without any real effect in what they claim to do. And before you go off the deep end, as you seem want to do, I am not saying we need NO regulations, but they need to back off. Requiring farmers to get CDL license to drive a tractor, regulating DUST as a hazardous substance and a host of other things just lead to financial costs to comply that hurt businesses, but serve little or no benefit other than to screw the companies and justify some bureaucrats existence. As for what he was talking about, you constantly have Democrats threatening banks with all sorts of punitive fines and tax audits if they dont do what THEY want them to do. We got into the housing mess to begin with because they threatened the banks to MAKE risky loans to lower income people and such, then threatened them if they continued, now threatened them if they dont just 'forgive' the money they are actually owed or really bend the rules, that they will be 'taxed out of existence'. Just ask Maxine Waters about that one.

WHile Obama prattles on, and his union lackey Trumka sits by in attendance, union members are causing mayhem and committing crimes in Washington State. But it is the Tea partiers we need to worry about. http://news.yahoo.com/longshoremen-storm-w...-144921214.html

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 03:44 PM) It's not like LGF is some lefty blog here, either. What planet do you live on? Charles Johnson is so far off the edge he needs a straight jacket.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 02:25 PM) I see zero difference between this and the faux outrage over Palin's use of targets on districts. Pick a position and stick with it (not you, per se). Either the rhetoric is bad, or it doesn't matter. If you b****ed about Palin's use of imagery and had no worries about the selective editing of content, then you can't b**** now. If McCain had to say sorry for something that was said prior to one of his speeches, then so should Obama. Actually, I DO see a difference. The Teamsters have a history of violence against people with different views than they have. Palin just has a history of violence against wolves.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 02:18 PM) FWIW this report originated on Fox News as a intentionally edited-to-be-misleading quote and and was carried by the MSM reports with the same editing. I see zero difference between this and the faux outrage over Palin's use of targets on districts. Pick a position and stick with it (not you, per se). Either the rhetoric is bad, or it doesn't matter. If you b****ed about Palin's use of imagery and had no worries about the selective editing of content, then you can't b**** now. If McCain had to say sorry for something that was said prior to one of his speeches, then so should Obama.

I just wanted to put this somewhere, this seemed like a good enough place. Gee, who woulda thunk it? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-jobless-...set=&ccode=

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 10:04 AM) Interesting, I didn't figure this coming from you. You don't think the primary phase is just as important, if not more so, than the general? The more people don't give a s***, the worse the candidates are that will come out of these primaries. Problem is unless you are in one of the first 4 or 5 primaries, your primary vote rarely counts anymore. F*ck Iowa and New Hampshire, why do they always get to decide who I get to vote for? (rhetorical question)

Tuesday was my first night in a new league in a new house, 205, 154 and 184. I had 4 splits in the second game, took me most of it to adjust to the quickly changing lanes. Still been too busy to get my new ball drilled, we'll see what i can do once I get that done.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 05:09 PM) Also, a big CYA after a program fails horribly with really bad consequences doesn't necessarily invoke a conspiracy beyond "we don't want to look bad and want to minimize political damage" I'll remember that once Obama is out of office. We'll see if you feel the same when there are Republicans behind something like that.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 05:06 PM) You know, some on the crazy left say the same things about Iraq and Afghanistan just being imperial wars of conquest or to build an oil pipeline etc. etc. If we follow your logic above, that this was some grand plan to get a law that appears to already be on the books (straw purchase law) passed, well, you sort of have to grant credibility to the more grandiose plans that are the real reasons we invaded. This ventures into the same realm as every other "massive cover up" government conspiracy theory, but it lacks any real motivation or hopeful end game. No, I don't. They came up with a plan to 'track' straw purchasers by telling gun stores to sell to them on purpose, so that they could then track the guns into mexico for some reason they never wuite said. However they had NO plan in place to actually TRACK the guns, so they all fell into the Mexican underground, and some even made their way to the border where American law enforcement agents were killed. There was an IMMEDIATE coverup by BATF to keep the fact that the guns used in that killing were ones they had 'lost'. So, stupid or 'brilliant' plan by our lovely government, you can decide what you want. At a minimum, the people involved need to be behind bars. Instead, they get shifted around, moved to more obscure agencies and so on in the hopes that they don't rat out someone higher up.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 05:03 PM) It's not like the context makes it any less populist or a particularly intelligent bit of rhetoric, but it does make it sound a lot less stupid than a simple desire to eliminate banks via taxation. The idea was to hold hard negotiations with banks that received billions in TARP bailout funds but are doing seemingly nothing to provide relief for people who are underwater in their mortgages. She wasn't advocating for the elimination of banks. The same banks they held hard negotiations with to MAKE those risky loans to begin with. Nothing like a little extortion to get your way.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 03:31 PM) Oh no doubt, but that doesn't lend credence to the idea that it was a planned failure by "progressives" (lol) in order to get support for more gun control, nor does it lead to jumping off from that conclusion to "I wonder if progressives burned Texas to the ground to make Perry look bad!" Read the stuff about it, even from the few msn outlets that covered it. Tell me how it was NOT destined to fail. Explain the coverup, the people ordered NOT to testify about it. If it wasn't planned to fail, the people who planned it should be put down for the good of society so that they never reproduce again and infect the world with their special kind of stupid.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 04:01 PM) That's not exactly what she said. Oh right, she is a democrat, so some 'nuance' is needed.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) Who needs banks, right? Nothing there to cause business uncertainty, right?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 07:29 AM) Judging by the time you put into your avatar and sig, I'm sure yours is firmly in place. Do you deny that certain progressives instituted the gun running scheme that allowed guns to flow into mexico with pretty much zero accountability or tracking? If you deny that it exists, your hat is bigger than Ron Paul's. And once you admit that they royally screwed up there, please let us all know what their motive was. Go check a few blogs and get back to us on that once you stop sucking the all mighty progressive c*ck. The people in charge of that program should be in jail. And sued 9 ways to sunday by anyone who was shot or killed with weapons that they LET go to Mexico. They did it because they thought they were doing the right thing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and progressives seem to lay an awful lot of bricks down on that road.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 08:12 AM) Give Maxine Waters time... She already wants to tax banks out of business.

Just a thought: if 'progressives' had no qualms about selling guns against the law to Mexico that killed lots of people in order to try and bend public opinion to their side of gun control debates, would it be a stretch to think that some forward thinking progressive activist could be setting some fires in Texas to somehow try and make Rick Perry look bad? I would normally say that would require a big tin foil hat, but after the gunwalker scandal and other things, you just never know anymore.