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- ukit0
I agree, we can't rely on the private system to do everything. Just think how many entrepeneurs are the product of the public school system. That's why I look at the libertarian philosophy as unrealistic - it's a kind of utopianism, saying that all government is bad and all private industry is good. There needs to be a balance.
- I agree, but gov needs to look at things like schools and come up with a better answer than 'more money please.'tommyo
- btw, it is common knowledge that you get a better education in private schools than public schools. Which is why I can't spell.tommyo
- spell and have horrible grammar. :Ptommyo
- Yeah, we need to make government better, but not eliminate it altogether.SigDesign
- if you have a solid kid, he can get a great education in public schools.DrBombay
- Where I live there is a private school which is not as good as the two public schools near itDCDesigns
- lowimpakt0
in practice and theory the provision of "public goods" will not come directly through the private sector.
- tommyo0
low,
Gov does and that's the sort of thing taxes should be paying for. Military is included too. But we've got bases in over 100 countries. Why? Do these bases actually help us or hurt us? Fact: all suicide bombers came from countries with heavy US occupation. If anything these bases hurt our ability to protect ourselves by making more enemies and costing us tons of money. There are basic things that gov pays for with our taxes that are good. It's the extras they 'provide' us with that are extremely expensive and downright foolish. Btw, I think our infrastructure system recently received a grade of D. So while gov gallivants around they're shirking their basic responsibilities. New Orleans for instance. The levies broke, don't you think they should have gone in and built some bad ass fool proof new levies? During that last storm a couple months ago they said the new levies had a 30% chance of failing. So where the hell is all our money going?!?!?
- Our money is going to Iraq.. 10 billion a month. Our money is going to China to pay off loans...SigDesign
- tommyo0
We're also going to be feeling the brunt of this bailout. Where are our taxes going? A: To the gov who is now buying private institutions. That's a huge no no and if there is anything that has happened in the last 10 years that screams Socialism, this is it. Now the gov not only has the minor reason of keeping banks alive (like they claim), now they have an undeniable reason to keep CERTAIN banks alive. This alone violates the idea of Capitalism by allowing, no, insuring that the banks we now own, out live the banks we do not own. It's insanity it really is.
- Not even mentioning the fact that banks getting the money won't see the inflation that lower line people like us will.tommyo
- zaq0
- ukit0
With 12 days to go until Nov. 4, Americans are casting early ballots at a record pace.
Whether encouraged by state officials to vote early and reduce the chaos and lines on Election Day, or pushed by campaigns to convert enthusiasm into tangible results, the shift to early balloting has made Election Day more of a final deadline than a one-day event.
In 2004, one out of every five Americans voted early, and if reports so far this year are any indication, an even larger proportion will wake up on Nov. 4 with their ballots already cast. More than 30 states — including most of the key swing states that will decide the race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain — allow their citizens to vote early, whether by mail or in person.
In Georgia, almost 800,000 votes have been cast so far — already more than the tally in 2004 with over a week to go. By Thursday morning in North Carolina, more than 750,000 people had voted since the polls opened a week ago.
Nevada, where more than half of all voters cast early ballots four years ago, kicked off voting last weekend and ramped up access to early polling sites in places such as supermarkets and libraries.
"We've expanded early voting this cycle and increased the number of locations and number of hours in anticipation of record turnout, trying to drive as many people as possible to the early voting locations," said Secretary of State Ross Miller, who prefers early voting and expects only 40 percent of the votes in his state to be cast on Election Day.
If previous elections are any indication, analysts said, the swell of early voting will only increase ahead of Nov. 4.
"If these numbers stay as they are right now, and we match patterns we've had in the past, we've yet to see the wave crest in early voting," said Michael McDonald, a professor at George Mason University and a consultant to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission who compiles data on early voting.
So far, it appears that the Obama campaign's drive to get people to the polls in October is paying off, at least according to data from several swing states that track voter demographics: More than 55 percent of early voters in Georgia were female, for instance, and more than 35 percent were African-American; in North Carolina, fewer than a third of those who voted early identified themselves as Republicans; and more than 60 percent of first-day early voters in Clark County, Nev., were Democrats.
"These numbers are really astounding — they defy all the patterns of early voting we've seen in this modern era," McDonald said. Based on past elections, he explained, "the early electorate tends to be more Republican in their character than the Election Day electorate."
If the trends are borne out to favor Obama, that would be a big change from 2004, when Republicans won the early vote in every state but Iowa, the one place where Democrats focused on locking it down. Even so, Bush made up the difference on Election Day and carried the state by just 10,000 votes.
- zaq0
Dear Red States...
We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we're taking the other Blue States with us.In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We
believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially
to the people of the new country of New California.To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot
Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states
pay their fair share.Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
bunch of single moms.Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at
once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have
kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no
purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their
children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and
hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our
resources in Bush's Quagmire.With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of
America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale,
Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88
percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care
costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the
tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern
Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh,
Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say
that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved
in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy b*****ds believe you are people
with higher morals then we lefties.By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt
weed they grow in Mexico.Peace out,
Blue States- no one gets texas bitches http://www.texasnati…BattleAxe
- Yeah, another civil war... great idea..SigDesign
- Do you think it will save you from a Collection agency?zaq
- definition of elitist liberal.johndiggity
- give it up john.DrBombay
- dbloc0
- B for Barack?dbloc
- Damn man that's insane. Poor girl.tommyo
- thats fucked upBattleAxe
- why did she refuse treatment??????????robotron3k
- is it just me or does that reek of fabrication. like seriously. pay her off to get beat up by a obama supporterautoflavour
- someone will base a font off this Bdbloc
- I question it as well. At least I hope no one was cray enough to do that!DCDesigns
- ukit0
http://www.politico.com/news/sto…
John McCain defended the Republican National Committee’s decision Thursday to spend more than $150,000 dollars on clothing and accessories for running mate Sarah Palin.
“She needed clothes at the time,” McCain told a group of Florida reporters.
- hallelujah0
John McCain's election night watch party might be missing John McCain. Instead of appearing before a throng of supporters at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4, the Republican presidential nominee plans to deliver postelection remarks to a small group of reporters and guests on the hotel's lawn.
Aides said Thursday that the arrangement was due to space limitations and that McCain might drop by the election watch party at some other point.
- tommyo0
The Importance of Capital Theory
by Bob Murphy on 10/22/08"In other words, the business cycle is not natural to the free market. It is the consequence of central bank distortion of the interest rate. It's odd that many "free market" economists overlook this obvious fact. After all, if the federal government appointed really smart people to the post of setting a "target Ford F-150 price," or a "target barrel of oil price," most free market analysts would say, "Hey! That's price control! Let the market determine those things."
But for some reason, this common sense evaporates when it comes to the "target federal funds rate," i.e. the interest rate banks charge each other for overnight loans of reserves. There are some notable exceptions; see for example this great piece by (pro-gold standard) Judy Shelton in the Wall Street Journal recently."
- tommyo0
hahaha:
Here's an explanation everyone can understand.
The updated guide to fiscal philosophies.
by Pat KerbySOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You are forced by Obama to give one to your neighbor.COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and rations your milk.FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both because they might damage a turtle habitat. They take one away to study it's environmental impact, pay seven people to milk the other (six lean on overpriced shovels while one does the work), and then throw the milk away...TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, you hire people to milk the cows, creating jobs. The economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You outsource the labor of milking them to Korea, and McCain encourages you to hire Mexican truckers to transport the milk.ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. For a time, the public buys your bull, but when it comes crashing down, congress gets you and your descendants to pay for it all..A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the sh#t out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.(see further results below)..AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.A DEMOCRACY
You have two cows, you vote for government benefits to help you take care of the cows. Your taxes continue to go up to pay for the benefits (mainly because all of the work is done by the bureaucrats. See example above). Your country goes broke and you lose all your cows.A REPUBLIC
You have two cows. You recognize that the above mentioned capitalism is the best policy, and you protect the rights of the individual against the threat of all these other philosophies.- The Iraqi Corporation is the best...and Indian Corp takes second place.tommyo
- robotron3k0
This woman is busted... anyone here who knows typography can see why...
- Or they reversed the image in the publication?tommyo
- unless it was written upside down.dbloc
- wasn't written upside down and the image was no reversed. look at the top 'B' loop is smaller than bottom.robotron3k
- and just WHY did she refuse treatment, and I bet it wasn't a 6ft tall black man that assaulted her either...robotron3k
- also that ain't now 'knife' scratch either!!!!robotron3k
- not saying that it wasn't a hoax, but I don't think an attacker is worried about how his B looks.dbloc
- you are out of your mind dbloc, it was not a knife scratch as you can see and writing left is MUCH harder than writing right.robotron3k
- Did she punch herself in the eye too?tommyo
- Besides, if she had a knife to her face, she'd be thrashing? Any defensive wounds to the hands? Doesn't smell right...TheBlueOne
- you're trippin robo. Are you sayin there is no possible way that this could be real.dbloc
- I agree that it looks sketchy, but it's possible that this really happened. Everything always has to be a conspiracydbloc
- why a B...why didn't he write Obama.dbloc
- hallelujah0
breaking news: obama wins
- hallelujah0
Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary, says he is backing Barack Obama for president.
McClellan made the endorsement during a taping of Comedian D.L. Hughley's new show that is premiering on CNN this weekend. The former Bush administration official said he wanted to support the candidate that has the best chance for changing the way Washington works and getting things done.
- dbloc0
- sorry, writing an upside down 'B' is even harder with a knife, unless he had a scalpel.robotron3k
- besides, if you read the story you will find out she's an Aggie.robotron3k
- but he took great care not to cut her skin... he was a nice thief.robotron3k
- also, fyi. Black people don't "scratch" with knives, that is only an old Anglo thing.robotron3k
- you racist!tommyo
- hahah! Damn knife scratching honkies!TheBlueOne
- careful not to cut the skin! you would not want her to bleed.robotron3k
- fooler20
How will your taxes change if Obama or McCain is elected in November? Use this handy Calculator ....
- I'd save just a tad more money with McCain. Not enough to justify voting for him on that issue alone. And if I keeptommyo
- bullshitin in this thread I'd probably get the benefit from Obama since QBN doesn't pay very well.tommyo
- how the hell do you make more than 250k hanging out in Politic threads on Design blogs all day long.fooler2
- I'm not tellin you guys what I make but take a look at 100k. Fyi, us good looking designers make more. hehe :Otommyo
- your arrogance also explains why you have to select "single" in the drop down menu. :)fooler2
- I'm just too good lookin to keep myself to one woman. hehetommyo
- who you kidding tommy, your neck looks like it blew a bubble ;) AAAAAAAYOOOOOO!DrBombay
- ********0
GOP ad presume Obama victory?
GOP argument: Don't give President Obama a blank check.
A new Republican ad appears to suggest that Barack Obama has all but won the presidential race, an argument several vulnerable Senate Republicans may have to reluctantly embrace with only days until Election Day, an expert in campaign advertising said.
Some Republicans are already planning on a Barack Obama presidency.
Aimed at Kay Hagan, Sen. Elizabeth Dole's surprisingly strong Democratic challenger in North Carolina, the 30-second spot from the National Republican Senatorial Committee warns voters against Democrats holding the White House and Congress, and flatly states that if Hagan wins, the party will "get a blank check."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS…
It's all over Johnny!