southsider2k5 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 02:02 PM) Why all the sudden is the Census this super evil communist plot. I don't remember anyone complaining about it in years past. You've never heard all of the conspiratorialists on both sides scream about it? The big thing I always remember hearing is that is a governmental plot to ID illegals and send them back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 03:02 PM) Why all the sudden is the Census this super evil communist plot. I don't remember anyone complaining about it in years past. GWB publicly made statements in 2000 during the campaign that if people didn't want to, they should pass on filling out the census forms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 02:03 PM) Not complaining. Already filled out and returned. Not you, just people in general. Seems like people think that Obama made this whole thing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 03:03 PM) Not complaining. Already filled out and returned. ^^what GoSox said. I was browsing some blogs before I made my original comment and not talking about anyone here. I didn't know whether I was supposed to laugh or cry though. It's like some people think that Obama invented the Census as another step to turn us into Communist Nazis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Daley today announced that a controversial plan to overhaul the city's pension plans is going to be unveiled. He apparently hired some high end financial industry folks to study options to come up with something more viable, and wants to go that route. I'm no big fan of Daley's, but I will say that he's been doing some pretty shrewd things financially in the last year or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 04:40 PM) He apparently hired some high end financial industry folks to study options to come up with something more viable, and wants to go that route. Swell. The only types I'd trust less with a pension plan than Daley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 I'm assuming peekaboo-ologist Glenn Beck will look out the window today and change his mind on "global warming". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 03:42 PM) Swell. The only types I'd trust less with a pension plan than Daley. Funny, I'd trust them far and above most government bodies. They'd still fall under the same regulations, only be able to work more effectively within those rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 04:48 PM) Funny, I'd trust them far and above most government bodies. They'd still fall under the same regulations, only be able to work more effectively within those rules. And to find nice easy ways around them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 03:55 PM) And to find nice easy ways around them. Like not funding them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 04:58 PM) Like not funding them And then issuing 10x of the original value of the pension plan in CDS insurance contracts betting that the plan will go bust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 (p.s. I'm just being difficult). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 The issue was with the Obama Admin. changing what department ran the census, but I never understood why that was a problem or why they switched it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 This is an entertaining use of one's facebook account, through Moveon. (You don't have to post it on your profile to watch it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 02:02 PM) Why all the sudden is the Census this super evil communist plot. I don't remember anyone complaining about it in years past. Counts are mandated, and most people are fine with it. The problem is the race profiling that's used to gerrymander the s*** out of the districts. But that's not new, either. That's a part of it and has been for decades. The poopoo hit the fan when Barackus the Great tried to move the census underneath the exec branch as well. That was new. Plus, it's funded primarily by the weenielus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 guess what dudes, minorities are growing, and one party is doing all they can to marginalize them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cknolls Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 03:40 PM) Daley today announced that a controversial plan to overhaul the city's pension plans is going to be unveiled. He apparently hired some high end financial industry folks to study options to come up with something more viable, and wants to go that route. I'm no big fan of Daley's, but I will say that he's been doing some pretty shrewd things financially in the last year or two. Agree. After giving the unions a ten year contract guarantee. He sees the writing on the wall because no 2016 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 I expect the radical right to find issue with this as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 06:52 PM) I expect the radical right to find issue with this as well. A White House spokesman tells CBS News that Mr. Obama is avoiding tax liability for the prize money by not accepting the award himself. He'd fit in well with the rest of the cabinet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were in a serious car accident Thursday afternoon on Interstate 95 in Fairfax County, and police said they are being treated at an area hospital for non-life threatening injuries. Police said the Reids' van was rear-ended and crushed by a fully loaded tractor-trailer while driving in heavy traffic. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Landra G. Reid, 69, and Lana Reid-Barringer, 48, of McLean, were driving northbound on I-95 at about 1:10 p.m. in a 2005 Honda Odyssey van in stop-and-go traffic when Reid-Barringer began to stop for traffic ahead of her. A tractor-trailer loaded with rolls of plastic behind her did not stop and pushed the van into another car. That car in turn hit a third car. Geller said the van was crushed on both ends. Both Reid-Barringer and Reid were wearing seatbelts and were transported to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church. The driver of a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the driver of a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, also involved in the crash, were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. "Mrs. Reid has a broken nose, broken back and broken neck. Lana has a neck injury and facial lacerations. Both Mrs. Reid and Lana are conscious, can feel their extremities, and according to doctors their injuries are non-life threatening," Jon Summers, a spokesman for Sen. Reid (D-Nev.), said in a statement late Thursday afternoon. Link from the post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 It's a good thing that they weren't in a little smart car or something. That sounds scary. Hope they recover well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 This has NOTHING to do with The Boss recently endorsing Democrats: Beck: Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ is ‘anti-American,’ ‘propaganda’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 The Democratic party is pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 11:56 AM) This has NOTHING to do with The Boss recently endorsing Democrats: Beck: Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ is ‘anti-American,’ ‘propaganda’ Because we all know that if your anti-war your anti-American. Nothing new from conservatives. George Will tried to get Regan to use this song without having a clue to what it was about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 12:00 PM) The Democratic party is pathetic. Democrats should replace Reid and Pelosi with Anthony Weiner and Russ Feingold. I don't know if they can, but they should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts