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- DrBombay0
I am not angry at all, I just think you are a complete fucktard. I am agreeing with about 90% of the people on this site. You are like the maniac preacher on the corner off his meds screaming his head off and no one is listening to him.
- actually I just say things that you don't want to agree with or hear, because it doesn't support your agenda********
- what is my agenda exactly, you simple simon motherfucker?DrBombay
- actually I just say things that you don't want to agree with or hear, because it doesn't support your agenda
- ukit0
- how can she slap?********
- Don't take that Col. Wilma Deering!Mimio
- biddi biddi biddiTheBlueOne
- how can she slap?
- Beach8oy0
JazX - what happened to you man? I haven't been on here in 3-4 years, and you've gone all............anti!?
- Anti-what? Anti-establishment, sure have, the Dems are the establishment now.********
- anti-dentiBattleAxe
- anti-intellectual.BusterBoy
- Just, so much pent up aggression. In the early days you were so happy, and helpfulBeach8oy
- life w/o this sad little person was soooo much better. QBN: ignore feature PLEASE!threadpost
- Anti-what? Anti-establishment, sure have, the Dems are the establishment now.
- TheBlueOne0
"There is a weird underplaying of the degree of Democratic victory this time. Sure, they didn't win quite as many seats as some pollsters and pundits predicted, but even at the height of the Great And Glorious Republican Revolution, back when Democrats were doomed to irrelevancy for generations, they maxed out at just 232 House seats. Dems have about 256 at the moment, with a couple of races not yet decided."
But, you know the Republicans had a "Mandate" and the Dems now have to, um, be cautious and play patty cake with the Republicans and be all non-partisan and shit.
- you smoke the dope?Llyod
- The GOPs are worst losers.Mimio
- after-politics politics********
- they are, just look at jagx.DrBombay
- lol @ 'GOP are worst losers' - and Democrats haven't been crying about 2000 and 2004 for the last 8 years solid??tommyo
- exactly tommyo, I'd call them sore winners or sore whiners for that matter. pathetic********
- Jaz you need to cool it though man. I said it before, let's just try and view this thing positively until there is reason not to.tommyo
- ..in 2000 Gore had 600k more votes and lost. I think that's a legitimate gripe.Mimio
- ding ding dingDrBombay
- Mimio...popular votes? Welcome to the America, if youz dontz likes has electoral college, callz someone.tommyo
- and thanks for proving my point you sore loser you. :Ptommyo
- *Gives Mimio a noogie.tommyo
- Americans ARE sore losers. Fuck the South still has a hard on for us Yankees...TheBlueOne
- joeth0
“We have to subsidize Detroit so that it will innovate? What business were you people in other than innovation?”
- This guy knows his shit.joeth
- Doesn't seem to. Those are loan guarantees to meet Federal cafe standards.Mimio
- Regardless of this particular column. Friedman is an asshole. As i blogged here:
http://www.theminibl…TheBlueOne - I like what he's been saying lately, but thanks for the warning, TBO.joeth
- Privatize wealth and subsidize risk. Ah corporate welfare, lovely thing innit?threadpost
- zaq0
Forget Red vs. Blue -- It's the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda
http://www.alternet.org/module/p…- you mean like the Democrats voting for Obama with no experience?********
- Ummm, the same goes for people who vote republican? haha.... Unless you are trying to secretly say black people are uneducated and vote for Obama but don't want o say White people are uneducated and vote McCain. =|lobstarr
- uneducated.lobstarr
- There's just an equal amount of "white" uneducated people who vote repub. but that never comes out.lobstarr
- you mean like the Democrats voting for Obama with no experience?
- zaq0
Jazx, I have a message for you. You need to get laid. Your sister doesn't count.
- that's just plain stupid********
- Just like you.TheBlueOne
- and you for voting got Obama. can't wait to see him fall flat on his face.********
- you are a true patriot.DrBombay
- that's just plain stupid
- ukit0
Hey this is pretty cool:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/310/s…
Maybe Stevens will lose after all.
Everyone was thinking Palin would run for Stevens seat if he won (and was then kicked out of the Senate).
- Holy crap that's close so far. So they still have 10k more to go through?tommyo
- ********0
Saudi Arabia to Lead U.N. Faith Forum
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich Islamic kingdom that forbids the public practice of other religious faiths, will preside Wednesday over a two-day U.N. conference on religious tolerance.- I figured this would be fitting in this thread specifically.********
- cryDrBombay
- Islam has a half-way decent history of religious tolerance, in the long view. No better or worse than Christianity. So what's your point?TheBlueOne
- ..what's your point?TheBlueOne
- a hypocrisy maybe? you can't practice other religions in SA********
- Amazing how you cherry pick hypocrisy.TheBlueOne
- Cherry pick? World leaders, including Bushie are attending. Hilariousl.********
- Imagine an animal rights
forum in China?********
- I figured this would be fitting in this thread specifically.
- ********0
BAR STOOL ECONOMICS
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the
bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.Since you are all such good customers, he said, I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.
Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his
'fair share?'They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the
sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay!And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the
men began to compare their savings.'I only got a dollar out of the $20, 'declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, 'but he got $10!'
'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!'
'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man.. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'
'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison.. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get
the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier!David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
http://davidk.myweb.uga.edu/
Professor of Economics, University of GeorgiaFor those who understand, no explanation is needed!
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible!- So this is how you got through grad school?TheBlueOne
- Grad school, nope, I busted my @ss while working. This was an E-mail I received. It's great.********
- Education via spam email. Why am I not surprised.TheBlueOne
- great E-mail.********
- You would think so.TheBlueOne
- http://davidk.myweb.… give him a ring and see if he wants to contribute here********
- No need. He already said he didn't write it asswipe:
http://www.viralgrap…TheBlueOne - I see, well maybe he didn't. Someone tried to pass it off, it doesn't change the point of it. Same to you BTW********
- everything JazX posts has failure written all over it.DrBombay
- No, I think your referring to your own thoughts in general DrBombay. Where's your other username?********
- and I'm not sure whether he wrote it or not, the link that you posted TBO looks sketchy in terms of credibility.********
- why do you keep harping on my username? Because you have no underlying point?DrBombay
- the underlying point is that you must have really pissed of the QBN people. LOL!********
- not everyone is a huge ass kisser like you.DrBombay
- you sit around cirlce-jerking with each other all f*cking day long! LOL! HAGAGGAGAHA @ss-kissing to the hilt! LOL********
- Someone elses take on that email:
http://geophysics.vo…
Josev - not sure who you think you are convincing.DrBombay
- The other analogy TBO posted is a little more realistic, but neither is truly complete.SigDesign
- This is all very interesting... it's actually good that JazX posted this email, now I'm reading lots about it!SigDesign
- so don't tax the rich tax because they are victims of the system...yeahKwesiJ
- ********0
Court rules for Navy in dispute over sonar, whales
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ar…- I'm guessing you don't like Roberts either... Just a hunch.********
- I'm guessing you don't like Roberts either... Just a hunch.
- joeth0
52% of voters who earn $200,000 or more voted for Obama.
46% for McCain.http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008…
Not showing up?
- You actually believe those things? Well see how happy they are with him in two years, if he stays alive.********
- Yeah! How can you believe it! It didn't even arrive in your mailbox as spam!TheBlueOne
- Who in this thread made over $200,00? Who voted for Obama?
*Raises handTheBlueOne - hahahahaDrBombay
- F*ck no!********
- It wasn't spam, it was sent to me from a fellow anti-Dem.********
- it was still fake.DrBombay
- inlaws all voted for Obama , there small buss makes +200kBattleAxe
- You actually believe those things? Well see how happy they are with him in two years, if he stays alive.
- DrBombay0
JazX, you are such a wannabe.
- ********0
- How your little body contains so much hate is amazing.TheBlueOne
- Hate? ha haha, it's truly amazing the hypocrisy that exists here. You can bash another party, but not accept a different viewpoint. OMFG!********
- DrBombay0
You wish so much that you were making over 200 g's, but you aren't, so you co-opt the argument that a person making that much might have.
- I'm unsure a 3rd grader could comprehend that.DrBombay
- How in the f*ck would you know? OMFG, you are completely lost dude.********
- you told us last week that you "hope" to make that soon.DrBombay
- from daddy's business.DrBombay
- If you really want to know, yes. It's combined in what I make working professionally and the fact that I OWN, the service-********
- oriented business. It's all under my name. LLC as well. My father manages it, I don't work for him. He me.********
- He's got sh*t credit from years of being screwed over by unions, etc.********
- his credit is bad because of unions... that makes absolutely no sense.DrBombay
- TheBlueOne0
How bad could this economy get? Here's an interesting fact. You know those super huge giant container ships they use to move product from factories in China to the rest of the world. Well the going day-rate before this economic boondoggle was $234,000. Today, if you want to rent a container ship it's $5,600.
http://www.independent.co.uk/new…
That's insane.
The Baltic Dry Index has collapsed 93%.
"On 21 May 2008 the index reached its record high level since its introduction in 1998, reaching 11793 points. Less than half a year later, on 4 November 2008, the index had dropped by 93%, to 815 points,[8] the lowest since 1999. These low rates move dangerously close to the combined operating costs of vessels, fuel, and crews.[9][10]
By the end of 2008, shipping times had been already delayed by reduced speeds to save fuel consumption, but lack of credit meant the disappearance of letters of credit, historically required to load cargoes for departure at ports. Debt load of future ship construction was also a problem for the companies, with several major bankruptcies and implications for shipyards.[11][12] This, combined with the collapsing price of raw commodities created a perfect storm for the world's marine commerce. Cheaper fuel was no longer able to offset this situation and global letters of credit are beyond the powers of the Federal Reserve."
- TheBlueOne0
"In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury's massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country's largest banks, recruited smaller banks into the program and repeatedly widened its scope to cover yet other types of businesses, from insurers to consumer lenders.
Along the way, the Bush administration has committed $290 billion of the $700 billion rescue package.
Yet for all this activity, no formal action has been taken to fill the independent oversight posts established by Congress when it approved the bailout to prevent corruption and government waste. Nor has the first monitoring report required by lawmakers been completed, though the initial deadline has passed.
"It's a mess," said Eric M. Thorson, the Treasury Department's inspector general, who has been working to oversee the bailout program until the newly created position of special inspector general is filled. "I don't think anyone understands right now how we're going to do proper oversight of this thing."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
Oh, we are soooooo screwed.
- kona0
i'm contemplating on wether or not to sell my obama posters. "progress" and "hope". they're selling quite well on ebay but i dunno. it's history and all.
- mg330
Man, I thought I was never going to see Palin again. And low and behold, she's on everywhere. Greta Van Sustrin, Larry King, etc. etc.
it's all the talk of NPR, tv shows, blogs, etc. WHAT THE GOP NEEDS TO DO TO REINVENT ITSELF.
I'm really tired of it, frankly, because we need to talk about what we need to do RIGHT NOW to reinvent this country, what our new president and new administration is going to do. I realize they want to create stories, but damn, isn't it getting a little ahead of themselves with all this speculation for 2012 when we've got real-time issues and things to discuss?
- she also loves obama too.... crazy turncoat Repub.robotron3k