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Boyz n the Hood when Ricky gets shot.

QUOTE (mreye @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 03:26 PM) I disagree. With one account we don't fight over how much shoes and bowling balls cost because we have a solid relationship. When we married we became ONE. Your two paragraphs completely contradict each other. In the first you say you shouldn't have any trust issues in a good relationship so feel free to have separate accounts. But in the second it sounds as if you're CYA in case your solid relationship siphons your account. Eh... I'm still my own person and so is she, we have our own personal wants and priorities. I pay my share of the bills the first few days of the month, she pays hers when she gets them, we buy food and whatnot together. After that I want my Xbox games, she wants her new clothes, and so on, there's no arguing over what's fair because we've worked all that out already. Plus, frankly, she isn't the best when it comes to financial discipline, so for example if she blows through all her spending money for the month it becomes her problem and not mine. As long as she doesn't dip into the "shared" pool neither one of us cares what the other does with the rest of the money.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 02:46 PM) 9th: Damn, I never realized Chicago had so many representatives.

Isn't Cook County the 9th? I forget.

Speaking of debt though I wonder how much of Hillary's debt he paid?

If you pray, but you expect for God's will to be done which means that God pretty much does what he feels like doing, then why the hell bother praying in the first place?

There's really no correlation between what somebody was before running for office and that person's actual performance when in office. For every example of a "good" president with a certain background there is a mediocre/bad one too. "Executive experience" is overrated IMO and not even a criteria I look at. Reagan was a governor and made a good president. Carter was a governor and made a bad one. Warren G. Harding was a legislator and made one of the worst presidents in history. JFK was a legislator and was one of the best. Eisenhower was a general and made a pretty good president. Andrew Jackson was a pretty meh one. Truman was a VP who took over when his president died and did decent (despite views of him at the time), Andrew Johnson was also a VP and ended up being pretty s***ty (despite views of him at the time). Bush 41 was a decent VP turned President... Richard Nixon not so much.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 12:12 PM) I didn't know I could dislike this woman any more than I already did. Palin: God Will Do The Right Thing On Election Day IMO that just makes it hilarious if they lost.

I could've sworn this thread was about Sarah Palin...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 10:17 AM) Not to mention if someone else has made the same type of joke about Obama, except with race, you would have posted it for all as more proof of racism. I don't know if you're referring to just the Filibuster or not, but there are plenty of racist things said about Obama every single day that I don't waste my time acknowledging.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 10:05 AM) Would someone make such a crude sexual joke about a male candidate? It's the same as the age jokes about McCain. There are so many other options. Why go for that one? Actually I only just got it, I couldn't figure it out until just now.

Maybe I'm missing something but what's so tasteless about it? Just seemed like a random shot on a message board to me.

Michele Bachmann = Joseph McCarthy

Who hasn't said something like this? Everyone gives some kind of "categorical denial" when they are asked before they're ready to announce it, almost to the point where it's pointless to even ask. Even Hillary did it when it was pretty much a no-brainer that she'd be running. Maybe it's just me but I don't think it's a big deal for somebody to lie about whether they want to run for president.

So last night I was watching Campbell Brown on CNN, and they were showing a tape of some people from the McCain campaign out at a rally, confronting some of their fringe-ish supporters. This one guy had a sticker that said "CHANGE" where the "C" was an Islamic crescent and the "G" was a Soviet hammer and sickle, and someone asked him why he didn't support Obama, he said because he's a socialist with an Islamic background. Then a woman says "well I'm a Muslim and I don't appreciate the way you said that" or something or other and the guy tries to argue, but a McCain campaign worker (who was Arab and Muslim) saying I support McCain, and I am Muslim, but you're not representing what the McCain campaign is all about, you don't show any respect for freedom of religion etc. The guy was sitting there looking pretty stupid. Then they had another guy from the campaign (a white guy) saying it's perfectly ok to ask questions about Obama's background, but you have to be respectful in doing it otherwise you're making McCain supporters look bad.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 10:51 PM) What he do? Another verbal gaffe, but not the kind that the Republicans are flipping out about and whining that he isn't being treated like Palin because he said there were 3 letters in J-O-B-S instead of 4, kinds that actually matter. Basically he went out of his way to say that Obama would be "tested" in the first few months of his presidency (something that also applies to McCain, and DEFINITELY would hypothetically apply to Palin btw but he didn't say all that). He was trying to play up the way Obama responded to the bailout fiasco but it didn't come out that way. Instead he just threw a Boone Logan fastball right down the pipe.

Why is Joe Biden such a f***ing doofus? Seriously he might want to invest in some notecards or something.

That's a pretty gross oversimplification of how to address terrorism, I guess it works since it's targeted to the lowest common denominator. Why'd they put that quote about not having our politics driven by fear of terrorism? What, they disagree? Then that means they DO want our politics to be driven by fear of terrorism? Sounds like a plan.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 06:44 PM) At least I'll get more money to go blow in Vegas. I was actually going to use it on hookers and coke. Anyone got any better ideas?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 04:02 PM) Well, there's already talk of another stimulus check which will be sent out after the election . Schumer predicted a $600 check to be sent out to individuals. thoughts? Good thing we had that one a few months ago to keep our economy from falling apart. Maybe the next one will too.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 03:12 PM) The funny thing is that I believe they should have tons of banking experience, and I think Dimon will do a great job. There was a whole lot of people who thought that because Paulsen came from a bank, he shouldn't be in the government, just a few short weeks ago, I am sure they will all of the sudden change their minds though. Seems to me that he pretty much just sucks at his job which is why people don't seem to like him.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 03:03 PM) So much for getting away from big bankings influence... Why on earth would you put someone in a position like that who doesn't have knowledge of how the banking industry operates?

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 02:51 PM) FWIW, NRO is reporting from a variety of sources that Jamie Dimon has agreed in principle to be Obama's Treasury Secretary. Who's that?

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 02:57 PM) I can care less really. Just find it amusing. The only posts in the Dem thread from non dems are usually ones where the poster agrees on something. No, not really. Usually just drive-by postings to take a shot at something someone posted

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 01:31 PM) It's comical how many times this has to be said. NSS care to revise your last statement from earlier in the year?? Because I just checked the The Democrat thread and for the most part it's only the Dems posting in there. I mean I never even read that thread...there's nothing I want to see in there, but check this thread and I don't think you can get through one page with out seeing the same kind of posts this thread was supposed to exclude. Dems just can't help themselves...they just can't. It was proven in the GOP thread and it's proven in this thread. To the moderators credit, they have stepped in from time to time to say keep the stuff out of this thread...but it's like a full time job. It's like putting a kid in front of a candy bowl and saying...please don't touch....they just can't help themselves. Well, without sitting and looking at a list I would guess the liberals outnumber the conservatives in the Filibuster by about 3 to 1 and the # of actual posts is an even bigger margin. Conservatives do post in the Dem thread but there's just not that many of them to begin with. Cross-posting to a certain amount is ok if it isn't ridiculously partisan, and the Dems do it more, but it's more because of quanitity than anything. If we just said "well if you identify this way, you can't post in the other thread at all" it would stifle discussion. And there's been some really good discussions in this thread actually.