Controlled Chaos Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 25, 2011 -> 08:02 AM) You realize that by this point in 2007, everyone other than Fred Thompson had basically declared that they were running in the Presidential primaries? This year, no one has actively announced they're a candidate yet. Anyway, Tim Pawlenty is going to save the world. touché Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 25, 2011 -> 08:02 AM) You realize that by this point in 2007, everyone other than Fred Thompson had basically declared that they were running in the Presidential primaries? This year, no one has actively announced they're a candidate yet. Anyway, Tim Pawlenty is going to save the world. That's some slick production work for a campaign ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I guess this fits here: The Appellate Court is on a roll, striking down Gov. Quinn's 31 billion dollar construction bill for having too many unrelated subjects in the bill: http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2011/01...r-tax-hike.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 26, 2011 -> 02:51 PM) I guess this fits here: The Appellate Court is on a roll, striking down Gov. Quinn's 31 billion dollar construction bill for having too many unrelated subjects in the bill: http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2011/01...r-tax-hike.html For the record, I would LOVE to see a US Constitutional Amendment like this one that IL has (leaving out omnibus budgets). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 This is why I think Obama has been a disaster so far as President. Not because i'm against a lot of his policy decisions, but because his focus is so completely off the ball. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/27/white-h...un-control.html The country is still in an economic hole and he chooses to focus on issues like healthcare and guns. I'm not advocating that those issues be ignored, but come on. He clearly understood that the SOTU needed to address the economy, and then he's going to waste energy on some bogus gun control debate that he won't win? Ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 link U.S. Rep. Mike Pence shut the door today on a run for the presidency, but left wide open the likelihood that he’ll seek a different office: Governor of Indiana. “In the choice between seeking national office and serving Indiana in some capacity, we choose Indiana,” Pence, R-Columbus, said of himself and wife Karen in a letter being sent to supporters. “We will not seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.” He said he would make a decision “later this year” about what his next political step is, but by not running for president it is considered a virtual certainty that he will run for the GOP nomination for governor. While he could, instead, run for a seventh term in Congress, that’s not considered likely given that Pence gave up the job that would have made him the fourth-highest ranking Republican in the House after the November elections, in order to focus on other political opportunities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 12:51 PM) This is why I think Obama has been a disaster so far as President. Not because i'm against a lot of his policy decisions, but because his focus is so completely off the ball. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/27/white-h...un-control.html The country is still in an economic hole and he chooses to focus on issues like healthcare and guns. I'm not advocating that those issues be ignored, but come on. He clearly understood that the SOTU needed to address the economy, and then he's going to waste energy on some bogus gun control debate that he won't win? Ridiculous. If a President can only have one priority at a time, we're in a lot of trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 02:23 PM) If a President can only have one priority at a time, we're in a lot of trouble. Here's what House Republicans are making their priority (aside from their symbolic-but-doomed repeal): redefining rape. Give them credit: It's only January, but the new Republican-controlled House is already obnoxiously redefining "rape" in pieces of legislation. Under their plan, only abortions from "forcible rape" would be eligible for government funding, instead of the much simpler "rape." [...] The fact that "forcible rape" has no real meaning as a federal legal term makes this all the more obnoxious. Oh, and what about the incest exception? "As for the incest exception, the bill would only allow federally funded abortions if the woman is under 18." You figure out the rationale on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 5, 2011 -> 09:32 AM) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/nyregion/05storm.html Blizzard Cleanup Is Subject of Inquiry By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and RUSS BUETTNER Published: January 4, 2011 Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have opened a preliminary investigation into allegations that disgruntled sanitation workers sabotaged the cleanup after the blizzard last week that left some neighborhoods snowbound for days, people who have been briefed on the inquiry said Tuesday. The investigation is focusing on whether there was a work slowdown and, if so, whether it was an effort to pad overtime. If the actions took place, two of those people said, they could constitute wire fraud or wire fraud conspiracy, both federal crimes. Both people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing. The inquiry, which began last week, is being conducted by the Public Integrity Section in the office of United States Attorney Loretta E. Lynch, which will work with the city’s Department of Investigation, one of the people said. The city investigators also began looking into possible efforts to sabotage the cleanup last week. “We’re taking a look at this,” one of the people said, adding that the inquiry was in its earliest stages. It was reported Monday night by WCBS-TV News. New York is once again buried in snow, but this time more Brooklyn streets are plowed and trains are running, if delayed, to the outer boroughs. While everything slows down for the weather, it’s worth noting that the city’s managed to be prepared for the last couple of snowstorms. It’s also worth noting, while we dig ourselves out, that the story that went rocketing around the media after the first major snowstorm of the year, of a union staging a work slowdown that kept the city paralyzed, has been debunked pretty thoroughly by now. The New York Times reports that one man, Councilman Daniel J. Halloran, Republican of Queens, had started the story, saying that five workers, two from the Transportation department and three from Sanitation, had visited him to tell him about the “slowdown.” The transportation workers, though, have denied his claims, and he cannot or will not name the sanitation workers. A federal investigation was convened after the snowstorm not to look into whether budget cuts were dangerously over-broad and left people without any form of transportation for emergencies, but into the union’s purported actions. But even Halloran has changed his story somewhat as the investigation proceeds. The freshman councilman, who has Tea Party support, now says that workers “were subtly informed there was no need to rush” while clearing snow, rather than explicitly told to slow it down. It’s probably too late, though, since the New York Post and Fox News have already used the union workers as another excuse to blame all organized government workers for everything that’s wrong with the country. The damage has been done, and it’s probably too much to hope that the Post will enjoy splashing the truth around as much as all the misinformation. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 03:07 PM) Link lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 04:33 PM) lol Yeah, I thought the same thing. That's so silly of a story you'd have to laugh at anyone who believed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 03:40 PM) Yeah, I thought the same thing. That's so silly of a story you'd have to laugh at anyone who believed it. Yeah, who would ever think a union would hold a work slowdown to protest... Anyways... That inspired me to look up who posts in these anymore. Its pretty much your page now. You'll have passed me in the Republican thread pretty soon. That is pretty much all there is to say. The R thread southsider2k5 812 Balta1701 717 mr_genius 592 lostfan 581 NorthSideSox72 571 The D thread Balta1701 1589 lostfan 1231 BigSqwert 1060 Athomeboy_2000 947 bmags 863 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 04:46 PM) Yeah, who would ever think a union would hold a work slowdown to protest... Yeah, who might use that opportunity as a chance to make an anti-union statement, secure in the knowledge that even if they can't provide evidence, they'll have a strong group of believers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 03:48 PM) Yeah, who might use that opportunity as a chance to make an anti-union statement, secure in the knowledge that even if they can't provide evidence, they'll have a strong group of believers. or that even if they did, they'd have a group of defenders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 (edited) But they didn't, that's an important point. I'm having flashbacks to the "ZOMG! Obama spending 200 TRillion a day in India!" crap/ Edited January 30, 2011 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 03:50 PM) But they didn't, that's an important point. I'm having flashbacks to the "ZOMG! Obama spending 200 TRillion a day in India!" crap/ I only wish the Dem thread had this kind of follow up done on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 03:51 PM) I only wish the Dem thread had this kind of follow up done on it. No one's stopping anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 03:52 PM) No one's stopping anyone. More like anyone who did care quit posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 04:51 PM) I only wish the Dem thread had this kind of follow up done on it. I got one of those follow-ups on a "Wikileaks might have caused something bad" post a few weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 03:55 PM) More like anyone who did care quit posting. Ok? You're right, there are a lot more counter-points posted in this thread. What do you propose happens, though? No refutations allowed? QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 03:55 PM) I got one of those follow-ups on a "Wikileaks might have caused something bad" post a few weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 03:58 PM) Ok? You're right, there are a lot more counter-points posted in this thread. What do you propose happens, though? No refutations allowed? No I propose we keep driving people off with the pretty much one way hyperpartisianship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 05:02 PM) No I propose we keep driving people off with the pretty much one way hyperpartisianship. If you want me to leave this forum, stop beating around the bush and say it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 04:08 PM) If you want me to leave this forum, stop beating around the bush and say it. Oh, totally the opposite. It is pretty much all yours now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cknolls Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 04:09 PM) Oh, totally the opposite. It is pretty much all yours now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 GOP Sen. Rand Paul Urges Cutting Aid to Israel http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/28/...5.shtml?tag=dis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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