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3 weeks or so ago when the gov't dropped their charges against Nashiri I had a friend who was flipping out (fortunately he's smarter than the average not-that-bright American who reads "let out of prison" when they see "dropped charges") and screaming about how liberals hate America and such. I kind of had to talk him off the ledge. You know something though... There are probably about 20 or 30 people sitting in GTMO right now that any self-respecting US attorney would kill to prosecute. You get your hands on a case like Nashiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah etc. that's like an automatic judgeship.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Feb 26, 2009 -> 05:59 PM) I can just imagine it catching on and having Hawk call him Slayer during a game having absolutely no clue where and how it originated. There would just be something so satisfying about the next star of the franchise being called a pussy slayer by crusty old baseball announcers.

So I called a friend of mine who's sharp with this stuff (M.S. in Econ, the guy who I've mentioned on here used to work at Treasury) and he said that sounds shady as hell and unless it's a new mortgage altogether or it's in the existing contract, that's impossible.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 26, 2009 -> 04:22 PM) Holy s***. Let me know more about this, can you? Because the day I get a job, I'm calling for the same deal. I'm calling my bank when I get home. What's the worst they can say? "No, sir, we can't do that." Then I'm just back where I started.

So my boss was just telling me how he called his bank and wanted to refinance because the interest rate is so low now. He has 6.5%, so like many people he's thinking he can drop off a percentage point or something. He says they called him back and said for a fee of $150 or something like that they will just drop the interest rate down to 5.25%, no adjustments to his balance or the terms of the loan or anything. Has anyone else ever heard of this? That's the first I've heard of it. Because if so, I'm calling my bank ASAP and paying whatever they ask me to pay. That would save me like 300 a month on my mortgage. Also, does the bank lose money doing this? I'm thinking the bank ordinarily just makes off with extra cash in that case since they don't have to give the 1.25% back to the feds, and when they drop the rate they just make whatever they'd normally make before the Fed cuts the rates. Am I wrong?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 26, 2009 -> 12:25 PM) It can be done, but it has to be done carefully and diligently. 10 years is a far more realistic timeframe than McCain's "by the end of my first term" proposal. I have no problems with high goals even if they're unrealistic.

Afghanistan wasn't really a random war but yeah.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 26, 2009 -> 11:28 AM) link's bad. fixed

The budget he's proposing is somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 trillion. Which obviously seems like an absurd number but it's the ACTUAL budget number instead of the pretty one, so it's not really a significant increase over what Bush was spending. The problem with the budget is that it's really not that easy to trim, candidates make it sound like it is, but it's not. All presidents want a slimmed down budget but if you want to cut back on waste and inefficiency it takes a major overhaul, none of which are easy to do. So either Social Security (which Bush tried unsuccessfully), cutting back defense spending (which Clinton managed to do but had mixed results, Obama and Gates are going to try to cut back some unnecessary programs to save a few billion, but the defense contractors have a pretty strong lobby), or Medicare (doing this basically requires an overhaul of the entire healthcare system which is a Herculean task). Stuff like pork is a red herring, sure it's wasteful but it's a very tiny part of the budget.

He's jabbing Balta again.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/25/teen.p...ref=mpstoryview

Alexander Graham Bell was lucky enough to be the first one to get to the patent office, lol.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 26, 2009 -> 09:10 AM) I don't know about the early stuff, but watching CNBC most of yesterday, while Bernanke was speaking was when the rally really got underway. They about 10 minutes before the close, that is when the market collapsed. That was also when Barack went on TV and started talking. Still though, it's pretty common that Drudge becomes a parody of himself like that.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 10:09 PM) Semantics. Obama meant to say "perfected the automobile"... but since I'm a HARDCORE GOP'ER, HANG HIM! Nice balance of the truth and Kaperbole™ in there.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 01:58 PM) Great, now the printer will not take the file. I love my life! www.fmylife.com

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 01:48 PM) Thank God I'm not a Republican then. Seriously. I wasn't talking about you though...?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 01:09 PM) No, it wouldn't. I've seen it here. I've heard it elsewhere. That's the difference. Sure it would... VP debates, case in point. "OMG SARAH PALIN WAS AN AWESOME DEBATER SHE SCHOOLED JOE BIDEN LOL" From the 30% groupings on either end of the spectrum there is no objectivity in there.

I really don't think it's fair to compare someone's speaking ability to Obama's though. Who DOES compare to Obama's speaking ability, right now?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 10:45 AM) Just so everyone is aware, the song is Regulate by Warren G and Nate Dogg. Touche - I wasn't looking at my music list when I wrote that

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 11:24 AM) Its alot of action. They also have "The Pitt" and "Broken Steel" expansion packs coming out soon. Yeah I finished it up last night. The Chinese stealth armor is bad ass.

How long does it take to get a JD? What kind of background do you need to get accepted to law school? add: Right now I'm at an online school (American Military University) majoring in Intelligence Operations with a concentration on Terrorism Studies. I finish October 2009 at my current pace. I have a 4.0 right now and once I turn in this paper for my current class I'll have 97 credit hours.

I only saw the last 10 minutes of Obama's speech and didn't see Jindal's speech but my wife asked if he bothered to read/watch anything Obama actually said.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 09:26 AM) According to our government, they'll pay for it. That's BS. Who cares? These people don't use credit anyway, and if they get hurt again, they go to the same place. The hospitals write it off, and they go on. In seven years, they're made whole again. You just said in so many words that people can/should just go bankrupt every time they need urgent care.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 03:14 AM) All my favorite moments are probably 10 or more years old as I started to watch it in 6th grade (on Fridays and over the summers) and throughout high school but haven't in years. Much funnier back then, in my opinion. My Conan memories are: The Masturbating Bear, Pimp-Bot 5000, Carl "Oldy" Olson, the Gaseous Weiner, staring contests with Andy (after the '96 Olympics with Bela Carolyi and Kerri Strug impersonators making out), driving the desk with Andy, the Max-on-Max channel, the subtitles controller changing the channel to Spice Channel porn because the show is boring, Conan searching for his old, original furniture and finding his couch on a farm mating with another couch... I'll cut you, foo I got microchips from Yokohama and I'll be turnin' out yo mama

We're only talking about urgent care here too so far, the people who have conditions that need regular treatment or have to get prescriptions and pay for them out of pocket are basically out to dry. edit: And it's not free if you have like 60k in debt afterwards...