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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 09:50 AM) Where do I start donating for your campaign? Paypal? A personal check will do. I'm not picky. I need enough donations to buy a new 52" flat screen. You know, for Super Bowl parties NBA playoff parties campaign rallies.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 11:18 AM) I don't think I said she was stupid (if I did, I misspoke), I said the CHOICE of her for that role was stupid. Oh I know. I was just throwing my personal opinion out there as to my main reason for thinking she's ineffective.

I don't think Pelosi is stupid, but she is hyperpartisan. She can't say or do anything without pointing fingers at or attempting to call out some Republican, somewhere.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 10:47 AM) So I guess if you're one of the 20K that gets laid off from NEC and struggle to find a comparable job because no one is hiring anymore...you must be lazy. How about those lazy ex-Caterpillar workers in Peoria?

QUOTE (scenario @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 10:39 AM) I'm a financial advisor... And I can assure you that rich people pay taxes. In fact, most of them pay ALOT in taxes. In retirement, income tax is far and away the single greatest expense most wealthy people have. And when they die, most wealthy people end up leaving 30-50% of all of their assets to Uncle Sam due to estate taxes. So... there seems to be this belief that wealthy people don't pay taxes, but it simply is NOT true. If it were true, most accounting firms and financial planners would go out of business. I think he meant to say rich people shouldn't pay (more) taxes.

I doubt it. Rush's crowd is faithful. He's converted my brother, and now my brother sounds like a complete dumbass when he talks politics. It's like he goes to download idiotic talking points and regurgitates them to me. He is one of those who still thinks Obama is a Muslim.

QUOTE (Cubano @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 10:31 AM) Poor people through the history, past and present, organize violently or peacefully to take things away from the rest. In the USA, it is done through elections and tax policy. Kap wasn't being serious with that post. Modern capitalism (meaning the last 100 or so years) includes progressive taxation. That is NOT socialism.

QUOTE (Cubano @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 10:25 AM) Envy!!! Huh? Who's envious? You just arbitrarily injected that word in here.

QUOTE (Cubano @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 10:20 AM) No, I am not. In USA, the sky is the limit. You are responsible for your own decisions and mistakes. Let's not blame others for our own shortcomings. In life, you play the hand you get dealt. There are only so many face cards in the deck, though. Sometimes you can improve your hand. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you're just dealt a crappy hand.

QUOTE (Cubano @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 10:14 AM) They are not trying hard enough... That's got to be the most absurd thing I ever heard. My family was pretty much broke my whole life growing up. He's fine now, but we struggled, and he worked hard, it took forever for him to finally get to where he is now (and my brother and I as a result). You could never tell me my dad never "tried hard enough" to provide for us. That's insanity. At the end of the day, there are only X amount of jobs to go around. If it's not there, it's not there.

QUOTE (Cubano @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 10:08 AM) They need to get their butts moving and find other jobs or work part time. ...it just plain doesn't work that way. You think they want to be making 24k a year?

QUOTE (BobDylan @ Jan 29, 2009 -> 08:54 PM) Added. Anyone play Operation: Anchorage, the Fallout 3 expansion? Nixon was pretty underwhelmed (although everything he says comes with a caveat because he is highly critical of everything, even games he likes a lot). I'm going to download and play it anyway though like a faithful sheep.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 09:47 AM) I love Fridays. When I turn 35 and run for President my first Executive Order will be a ban on Mondays.

I love it when I cruise past a green light at intersections I'm normally stuck behind a long ass red light for.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 30, 2009 -> 09:23 AM) Sounds about right for Blago. By "about right" I'm sure you mean "100% accurate".

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 29, 2009 -> 09:20 PM) I disagree, betting on a baseball game of which you have direct control over maybe worse cheating than Bonds. Rose should never be allowed near the game of baseball. To my knowledge he never did any of that while he was playing and his career numbers are untainted. I don't think his post-career indiscretions (which were pretty f***ing stupid, for the record) should anything to do with that.

I love it when the cubs go into the playoffs with the unwarranted hype of the world behind them, then choke pathetically and get swept easily. I love it even more when it happens twice in a row.

A - obama was joking when he said that B - he's right. People in dc/md/va are complete pussies about the weather

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2009 -> 08:09 PM) Then again maybe Wall Street should just start calling it a stimulus plan. You seem to be able to get away with anything if you do it in that vein. How about the Dow Jones Industrial Stimulus plan! With all of the retirement money out there, we should be able to get a couple of trillion dollars for that right, because it is definitely too big to fail! I'm going to go run up a couple billion dollars of debt actually, are you on board?

So I hear Campbell Brown on CNN talking about (or about to start talking about) how Rush Limbaugh seems to be trying to lead the Republican Party somehow. That is an awesome idea if your plan is to get the Dems closer to 70 seats instead of 60.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2009 -> 08:03 PM) Why should he care? He just handed out 820 billion in bonuses. It was administered horribly. That's partially Congress's fault for not attaching more strings, and the Paulson crew for not knowing what the hell they were doing.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 29, 2009 -> 06:59 PM) Hmm...it's time we convert the pope. That's not much of a stretch. God plays for the Sox.

Mayor, Governor, President. Game, set, match.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jan 29, 2009 -> 06:06 PM) And Shoeless Joe. He was banned for life, and he's been dead for decades. Put the guy in already. Agreed.