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   Hey, CavBank. Remember your post about Sen. Lugar's wife?   --  Texas Hoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:35:11 PM
      Wonder if she was wearing this outfit?  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:47:53 PM
         I am told this is a flashbulb phenomnon, ie, looking at her  --  southdenverhoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:37:30 PM
      Have you ever read the top of this page any of you? I finally did **  --  MSGHoofan   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:45:29 PM
         Maybe Kris needs to use more one syllable words. **  --  Shenhoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:50:18 PM
      Getting a DUI at.06 would piss me off. **  --  HoosHouse   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:43:40 PM
         Good lawyerin' and a few grand would make you (relatively) happy again **  --  southdenverhoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:38:35 PM
      If this was about CB, why not just privately email him that link? **  --  vwahoov   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:42:55 PM
         If CavBank provided the same courtesy I'm sure Texas wouldn't have posted that **  --  DAMHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:43:33 PM
            True. Doesn't make it funny of Tex to do or right. **  --  vwahoov   Fri Nov 20 2009 5:02:40 PM
         I'm just trying to provide the same service as CB. **  --  Texas Hoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:04:45 PM
            Bingo **  --  DAMHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:42:35 PM
      I feared someone would act childishly enough to stoop to his level.  --  aficionadHOO   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:39:56 PM
   This could get interesting if proved to be true......Hadley CRU docs hacked  --  Teflon   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:49:41 PM
      HIDE THE DECLINE! Would they dare sue and admit emails were real? **  --  SRFord   Fri Nov 20 2009 5:03:54 PM
      Response from RealClimate.  --  HooBauer   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:50:52 PM
         Kind of tempers things quite a bit, doesn't it?  --  Hood   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:24:22 PM
            I agree Hood that the hacker will certainly use the data to their own ends. With  --  Teflon   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:52:36 PM
            Just another inconvient truth, eh? **  --  manassashoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:34:31 PM
               LOL **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:41:42 PM
         A resoned response that will fall on deaf ears, HB.   --  Seattle 'Hoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:22:28 PM
            You're right about one thing, people will believe what they want to believe. **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:44:24 PM
            Resoned = Reasoned **  --  Seattle 'Hoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:22:57 PM
      Quick,...someone call CNN.... **  --  hoobedda   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:40:23 PM
      I just posted this below in HOO86's thread. THIS IS HUGE!!!  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:14:59 PM
         Hahaha, wow. **  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:35:20 PM
   Today's Daily Reckoning  --  Joey Wahoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:31:37 PM
   Very insightful article on what is under consideration for Afghan...  --  Mikeysurf   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:54:43 PM
      It didn't help that Iraq put off their elections. Getting our kids out of there  --  Lazarus   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:46:06 PM
      What do you think of Karzai?  --  hawkb   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:04:05 PM
         Handsome, smart, articulate  --  NJHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:12:20 PM
   Finally those hippie Berkley students have something real to protest about.  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:43:11 PM
      The non-issues the screeching right makes into "demmucrat party issues" ...  --  WahooRQ   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:05:25 PM
         Do you want your democrat to run country into the ground as they did California? **  --  SRFord   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:26:58 PM
            Didn't the republicans already do that? .....  --  WahooRQ   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:28:16 PM
               So R's run country into ground, BO and D's do 2-4x what R's did and its okay?  --  FreshHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:41:12 PM
                  Our only hope is to cross the streams? **  --  111Balz   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:34:09 PM
                     It would be bad. **  --  vwahoov   Fri Nov 20 2009 5:03:54 PM
      That looks like UCLA. Democrat mismanagement chickens home to roost.  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:29:00 PM
         My bad, they are also protesting at Berkley. Locked themselves in a building.  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:40:26 PM
            Schadenfreude? Did you see the pic of the kid getting tasered?  --  Lazarus   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:52:37 PM
               I don't blame them for protesting. That's the whole point of my post.  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:03:07 PM
                  My bad. In that case I agree with you. Apologies kail. **  --  Lazarus   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:26:27 PM
         Hysterical. You blame youth & Dems; CavBank blames Reagan & GOP. Both wrong! **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:36:10 PM
            Reagan had California more straightened out when he left in 1975.  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:45:33 PM
         Hysterical. You blame youth & Dems; CavBank blames Reagan & GOP. Both wrong! **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:36:09 PM
      The true cost of liberalism is commin home.....to roost! **  --  kingralf   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:17:37 PM
         Is the "cost of liberalism" a top 25 education for 9 grand a year?   --  WahooRQ   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:27:21 PM
            And a broken budget/balance sheet...  --  Moneyshot   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:52:51 PM
            Hysterical. The Outrage-aholics are hittin' the sauce again. **  --  DiHOOgenes   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:32:32 PM
         Don't you think it is still very cheap. 32% sounds like a lot but  --  KCHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:24:57 PM
            Pew Center research on states in financial peril and how they voted in the past   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:38:43 PM
               Florida, Arizona, and Nevada along with CA are the Real Estate Bubble.  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:48:58 PM
            So, if CA, even after the hike, is less expensive than VA, does that mean that  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:29:39 PM
               No. **  --  ryno hoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:35:17 PM
                  Persuasively argued ;)  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:42:24 PM
            They spent too much on entitlements it's as simple as that. **  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:28:28 PM
               Yes -- without being willing to pay taxes to pay for them  --  KCHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:25:56 PM
                  Or the legislature made promises they can't keep. **  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:28:00 PM
   Sobering news on the commonwealth's transportation prospects...  --  Mikeysurf   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:57:15 AM
      I'm looking for spcifics re: VRE expansion to Bealeton/Remington via the old   --  southdenverhoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:21:27 AM
         Priority only is with them that have to make teh drives from  --  MSGHoofan   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:15:03 PM
      I'm looking for spcifics re: VRE expansion to Bealeton/Remington via the old   --  southdenverhoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:21:26 AM
         Sorry, i really did only click once, weird stutter... **  --  southdenverhoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:22:17 AM
            Happens to me, especially from my iPhone **  --  Mikeysurf   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:37:59 AM
   LOL. Der Spiegel: "Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-out"  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:31:13 AM
      "Global Climate Center" HACKED! Will potentially uncover tampering with temp.   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:06:42 PM
      They like to use 1970s as baseline-Newsweak said Global Cooling was threat then  --  SRFord   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:14:33 PM
         Did the Newsweak article say we are stupid rednecks if we don't agree with it? **  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:20:45 PM
            Newsweak still using fear to sell copies. **  --  SRFord   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:59:24 PM
               A proven tactic, as of late. *Wink* **  --  vwahoov   Fri Nov 20 2009 5:07:18 PM
      I haven't seen boogie man since 1st grade either. Doesn't mean he isn't real. **  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:19:18 AM
      They can't even agree if it's gotten colder or warmer over the past decade...  --  The Hook   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:18:45 AM
         The whole movement has become religous, not scientific. They've lost their minds **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:37:55 PM
            Religious **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:38:58 PM
         We better hurry up and nationalize our economy before its too late. **  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:20:31 AM
      Meanwhile Ireland and England had a 1 in 1000 year storm  --  KCHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:17:26 AM
         What constitutes a 1000 year storm is guesswork.  --  Automator   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:56:43 AM
            I agree with that, but it was still an absurdly large storm  --  KCHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:26:54 PM
      Reminds me of the guy in the New York Times who writes the annual article with  --  Tiki Time   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:52:32 AM
   Hey, Dan. Your earlier defense of the Admin's bogus job numbers was admirable...  --  Texas Hoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:23:34 AM
      Where I see Obama and his administration struggling is in...  --  Mikeysurf   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:05:57 PM
         Re: Good commentary, Mike. **  --  PhillyHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:35:13 PM
         The problem is not only was the bill not targeted enough  --  TomKazanski   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:27:02 PM
      I love Obamanomics. 1 $1,100 lawn mower saved 50 jobs! woohoo! **  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:22:44 AM
      All the uproar is easily explained by use of the term 'saved jobs'  --  HooBauer   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:37:35 AM
         How does one know if his/her job was saved?  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:45:27 PM
            How do we really know if a job was created because  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:03:23 PM
         Not just that. I recall heartburn when Bush claimed  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:45:28 AM
            At least Bush had something to crow about when the economy took an upturn  --  HooBauer   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:21:05 PM
               Mythical creation?   --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:58:35 PM
            2 Quarters only. Shouldn't be tried again. Here comes Obama again. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:27:07 PM
         When you start "saving" in places that don't exist, then the uproar gets louder. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:44:25 AM
            Well, when you ask for unmeasureables, you're apt to get wild  --  HooBauer   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:57:04 AM
      Amazing, Libs have no problem with fake districts and fake jobs but get upset   --  SRFord   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:01:42 AM
      Since those "jobs saved" numbers from the $787 billion Waste Bill are Bullsh*t  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:46:10 AM
      I'm astounded how anyone can defend these bogus numbers.  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:29:10 AM
         I can. It is stupid, of course, for anyone  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:51:27 AM
            I think he saved or created 1 billion jobs  --  foos   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:29:29 AM
               So are you denying that stimulus saves jobs? **  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:39:56 AM
                  Don't be a fool  --  foos   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:48:12 AM
                     ...ummm. So I guess you are denying that  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:51:50 PM
                        Actually I will leave  --  foos   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:05:58 PM
                           So your answer is no, you are not denying it. **  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:51:11 PM
            Listen to yourself, the fact that anyone parrots "save or create"  --  2011BIL   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:20:55 AM
               Hmmm. I sense an inability to grasp new concepts.  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:39:00 AM
                  Obama is making you look as foolish as Homer Simpson  --  2011BIL   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:24:20 PM
                     Yes, I know, and evolution hasn't been proven either.  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:57:43 PM
                        Will you stop putting arguments that I didn't make in my mouth?  --  2011BIL   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:10:57 PM
                           So are you denying that stimulus has an effect? **  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:52:35 PM
            LOL! Not much of a defense of major screw up like BO **  --  SRFord   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:03:59 AM
         I'm astounded how anyone ever could have considered voting for Obama.  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:47:04 AM
            I'm astounded how anyone ever could have considered voting for McPalin. **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:45:13 AM
               That ticket would have had the jobs returning by now. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:49:15 AM
                  Re: That ticket would have us in a Great Deppression by now. **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:27:26 AM
                     If you believe Obama we were in a great depression the day he took office **  --  Teflon   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:21:35 PM
                        Well, I was certainly depressed that day! **  --  PhillyHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:38:22 PM
                           I was a few months before. By that day, I knew the country had lost its mind. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:55:40 PM
            Combine'em w/ the fools who voted for McPalin and we are in Dumb-bo land **  --  CavBank   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:31:31 AM
            He is less of a problem than Pelosi/Reid are  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:04:28 AM
               Obama's never managed anything in his life. He's never reached across the aisle  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:10:14 AM
                  How can the board's staunchest partisan criticize anyone for failing to "reach  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:55:12 AM
                     When the criticized talked a fraudulent game of being "Post-Partisan". **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:23:41 PM
                        Laches, bud -- unclean hands.  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:33:00 PM
                           Oh. It's available, and loudly explained. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:47:50 PM
                  Don't get discouraged.It took the public 7yrs to see Reagan's ineptitude **  --  CavBank   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:35:27 AM
                     If Reagan was so inept how did his veep of 8 years get elected prez?  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:47:22 AM
                        The country wishes it could be so lucky as to have another RR. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:24:59 PM
                        Cheney said that Reagan taught us deficits don't matter.  --  Shenhoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:48:15 AM
                           Obama campaigned loudly that they do. Look at him now. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:49:07 PM
                              I am. I think he's spends way too much like Reagan and the Bushes. **  --  Shenhoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:13:09 PM
                                 Not like Reagan and the Bushes. Four times worse. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:20:57 PM
                        Good old Americans have a very difficult time admitting mistakes. It's taken my  --  CavBank   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:01:56 AM
                        Dukakis happens. **  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:52:44 AM
                     Reagan didn't have ineptitude. The public is seeing Obama's in 10 months. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:40:08 AM
            Yes, putting Palin one step from the presidency would  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:54:16 AM
               Palin one step or Obama in? Which is worse? The latter, I'm afraid. **  --  PhillyHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:39:36 PM
                  I guess we will have to disagree, I assume based on our evaluations  --  HoosWillWin   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:04:55 PM
               Without question YES. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:05:26 AM
               That is the reason why I voted for Obama.  --  Boris HOOinski   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:57:02 AM
                  So you got stuck with someone as P with less experience and ability in BO **  --  SRFord   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:06:18 AM
                     Is there a reason that all of your posts read like algebraic equations? **  --  vwahoov   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:37:40 AM
                        Unable to discuss the facts? Whine on **  --  SRFord   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:29:36 AM
                           Maybe he just doesn't speak Hookem?  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:34:24 PM
            God forbid anyone have an opinion different than yours. **  --  Automator   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:52:44 AM
   Angry Congress lashes out at BHO (link)  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:52:36 AM
      Awesome, get out the pitchforks. **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:11:53 AM
         And it finally looks like we are getting some traction on multiple fronts.   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:24:48 AM
            Maybe I'm dense, but couldn't figure out from your link what the Paul/Grayson   --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:32:48 AM
               Check out the link below. **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:41:30 AM
                  Oh. Thx. BTW, does it look now as if I'm in the tank for the DNC? **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:59:42 AM
                     I see plenty of Democrats in Congress who are concerned   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:23:02 PM
                        Agree. And where do you come down on the Fed audit? I favor, fwiw. **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:38:04 PM
                           Absolutely I do. I don't believe they are independently working for the greater  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:07:08 PM
            And here is the story from Bloomberg on Ron Paul's plan  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:27:40 AM
      Lol, public grandstanding instead of actual progress. Standard for Congress **  --  hatetheturtle   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:10:13 AM
      Great one, thanks. It's ALL about the economy.   --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:07:28 AM
         It darned well should be about the economy. Why anyone is focused on anything   --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:47:16 AM
            He knew the drill, stay connected to the pulse of the voters in the middle  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:15:35 AM
               Obama's been "where's Waldo?" since he took office. Has done nothing I know of.  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:31:23 AM
                  Abdication of power to pelosi and reid  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:55:47 PM
      Wow, Capital Hill, not a place for the meek these days  --  HooBauer   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:06:32 AM
         There's gonna be a reveolution if these clownss don't get their heads in the   --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:48:37 AM
            I've said it a million times before ..... ten point two  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:17:41 AM
               I agree that it's been at least a million times now. **  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:25:04 PM
               Gonna get worse before it gets better. **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:33:38 AM
   Goldman-Sachs shorting the banks. Can you say double dip recession? **  --  wahoo99   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:40:43 AM
      And yet their employee compensation is at record highs. Now shareholders are   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:40:10 AM
      We're going to require another recession to exit Obama's stagflation anyway.  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:23:51 AM
      Forgot link.   --  wahoo99   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:42:48 AM
   Fred Thompson on Afghanistan. (2:52 video)  --  wahoo99   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:39:11 AM
      Well articulated by Fred. Democrats are incapable of Defending America.  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:04:22 AM
   Read it and weep  --  Joey Wahoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:25:03 PM
      Blah, blah, blah. Again I ask; where does everybody propose we cut spending?  --  Seattle 'Hoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 3:30:20 PM
         I agree there is no stomach for what must be done, but this is not sustainable  --  Joey Wahoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:57:34 PM
      Total deficit incl. unfunded liabilities must be approaching $100 TRILLION! **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:58:47 AM
      With Obama's October deficit at $176 billion, this $1.4 will be small soon.  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:47:58 AM
      Actually, the 2008 deficit was much more than that..Bushlite did not incl  --  CavBank   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:41:16 AM
         I suppose it's impossible to have a discussion on here without...  --  Joey Wahoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:55:31 AM
            I continue to be amused by some of the reactions to discussion  --  Galileo24   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:00:12 AM
               We are very close to the point where it cannot be fixed **  --  sarmartig   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:22:01 AM
                  I think we've passed the point of no return. Unfunded liabilities too great to   --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:35:57 AM
                     The New Deal and The Great Society to Destroy America.  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:36:29 PM
                        In your distorted world the GOP has nothing to do with this. No OIF, drug  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:40:11 PM
                           Last I checked, the GOP didn't sponsor The Great Society or The New Deal.  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 2:39:45 PM
            Joey you know the game, just obfuscate into politics to avoid discussing facts.  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:10:18 AM
         So are you or are you not bothered by this staggering number?  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:48:14 AM
            We need new leadershipm that isn't beholden to special interests. Good luck   --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:54:56 AM
               I'd rather waste my breath calling for new leadership than .........  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:02:25 AM
      The only way out: Go to Vegas and put what's left on "00" **  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:48:29 AM
      Consider the incredible amount of interest for which we're now on the hook  --  Joey Wahoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:40:06 AM
      Print more money and send it to China & lets call it even :) **  --  B-Lam   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:39:23 AM
   This is why I get upset about the length of the bills  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:08:46 PM
      The $100M is what bothers me! They should be shot! **  --  HSCHOO   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:44:41 PM
         This has been going on forever. It's just now that's it's being reported  --  wahoo,M.D.   Fri Nov 20 2009 6:28:23 AM
            They say "Prositution is the oldest professionj"  --  Wahoo Ron   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:22:18 AM
   Question: Is ObamaCare (for sake of argument, we'll call it that) repeal-able? **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:07:39 PM
      Repeat of 1938 election after FDR & Ds raised taxes-GOP gained 80 seats due to   --  SRFord   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:34:09 AM
      As "repealable" as Social Sercurity and Medicare...  --  Hokie5150   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:51:55 AM
      Has any entitlement program ever been repealed? **  --  kingralf   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:12:14 AM
      Can it? Yes. Will it? No. political suicide to try.  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:53:18 AM
      Almost impossible because it would be filibustered - need 60 votes, or a 20   --  TriplHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:52:21 AM
         Even if the GOP did reach 60, an Obama veto would require 67 **  --  Wahoo Ron   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:08:27 AM
            I was assuming post-2012 repeal effort. **  --  TriplHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 10:02:47 AM
      Young scorpions need to be crushed eariy on  --  Wahoo Ron   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:51:41 AM
      Why don't we call the current program "InsuranceWelfareCare" for sake of truth **  --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:13:03 PM
         Sorry..meant...InsuranceCompanyWelfareCare **  --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:15:40 PM
            You should definitely check out Cuba or Venezuela. **  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:57:59 AM
               He'd love it, do they have internet? **  --  HooBauer   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:14:28 AM
                  Hopefully for us they don't. **  --  Tiki Time   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:39:19 AM
      Sure..But the GOP is gutless when really cutting programs  --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:11:02 PM
         Do you have to have a GOP-bashing response in every thread??  --  Bacon   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:36:46 PM
            Oh, I can bash BO, too. He nees to live up to campaign promise to get out   --  CavBank   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:44:42 AM
            What he doesn't understand is most of us aren't fighting that battle.  --  kail123   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:03:47 AM
      Name a federal gov't program that has been repealed and  --  BocaHoo91   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:09:25 PM
         Tariff of Abominations **  --  aficionadHOO   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:37:16 PM
   Cal Berkeley to raise tuition 32%, wtf?  --  Charleston Cav   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:33:53 PM
      California is a good example of what happens after 30 years if the GOP (Ronnie)   --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:09:32 PM
         OMG, Cav, you are absolutely smokin' crack. Do you know ANYTHING about CA??? **  --  HoosADaddy   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:53:11 AM
            I can tell by his post: no. **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:34:15 AM
         Now, this is funny... **  --  Hokie5150   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:53:33 AM
         Not fair, CavBank. It's a result of everybody getttign what they wanted, and   --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:29:12 AM
            It's because of 1 thing. Too many Democrats. **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:31:12 PM
            Gimme, gimme, gimme eventually has a price  --  capwater   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:51:41 AM
         A comment like this just shows that you don't have a clue, especially about CA.  --  CA Cav   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:21:02 PM
      Then you'll like this stat...when education is factored in for the middle class,  --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:05:12 PM
      I think it will still be hugely subsidized **  --  KCHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:59:44 PM
      Go dig Howard Jarvis up and yell at him **  --  NJHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:46:03 PM
         Howard Jarvis is one of the biggest heros for California. Needed more of Jarvis **  --  HOO86   Fri Nov 20 2009 1:32:31 PM
         Nt entirely to blame, Prop 13 pays a big role in CA's mess. **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:30:05 AM
      That's a very cool way of approaching conservative principles  --  HooBear   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:51:33 PM
         I too am a big proponent of education as the great equalizer,  --  BocaHoo91   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:33:15 PM
            Posted this below to supplement the discussion  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:13:22 PM
               Wow, I guess I underestimated how expensive it is to live in  --  BocaHoo91   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:12:23 AM
         In most cases good public universities subsidize the wealthy. Need based scholar  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:29:18 PM
            That makes no sense at all. But what else is new.... **  --  WahooRQ   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:48:24 PM
            Actually..who is lip-locked on the teat are the corporations who pay no taxes in  --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:07:50 PM
               Wrong again, companies are fleeing California because of poor business climate **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:25:00 PM
               That's "Kuhlifornia". Right, SR? **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:10:44 PM
                  Yes, spanish name, spanish pronounication **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:27:29 PM
         Yep. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:52:37 PM
            Although, you just called that conservative "Amigo". Watch it. ;-) **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:53:05 PM
      You used to be in NorCal? Sharing way too much info.  --  turk   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:46:38 PM
      Well, it's currently only around $7,000 per year to go to UC Berkeley in state  --  WahooRQ   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:58:43 PM
         Heres something that gives a slightly more apllicable cost analysis  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:06:01 PM
      I agree with you but on the other hand, UCLA is a public school.  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:38:12 PM
         Think thats upsetting, check this out  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:59:33 PM
            Your link is upsetting.... but is $500K divied up between   --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:09:53 PM
               I dont disagree with your point at all but at the same time  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:26:57 PM
                  It's terrible but that's what's going on in the public and private sector  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:44:36 PM
                     And here I am trying to preach to the choir. I don't pretend to know what I'm  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:45:03 PM
                     I think we agree on this. I am a business owner so I am alwyas looking for   --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:21:45 PM
                     Another point to consider... Do you know how much money Casteen has raised for  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:52:03 PM
                        I would also. Its amazing what someone with the right angle to his/her ideas is   --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:28:19 PM
                           Yep. Good article on him in the DP...  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:02:33 PM
               California's deficit, that is. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:10:37 PM
         Sorry to double post, but I'm also wondering if all of those  --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:44:35 PM
         Bad situation all around, I wonder if tenured professors are willing to take   --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:42:46 PM
            In California? ;-) **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:44:12 PM
               To quote Clay Davis:  --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:46:09 PM
                  LOL. Best show in the history of television, IMHO. **  --  WahooRQ   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:18:38 PM
                     Maybe 2nd best show in the history of television.  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:55:38 PM
                        How about this: BOB = best mini-series; The Wire = best regular show?  --  WahooRQ   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:46:28 PM
   Deficit neutral vs. cost neutral ...  --  turk   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:05:15 PM
      I don't know how much stock I put in the opinion of physicians on h/c policy  --  WahooRQ   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:58:20 PM
      Large tax increases with U6 unemployment at 17.5% os stupid **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:35:53 PM
      Exactly, and they keep talking about "cost controls"  --  HoosYourDaddy003   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:03:18 PM
      This sucks. **  --  kail123   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:31:38 PM
   I guess Sen Lugar's wife will be looking for a liberal judge now  --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:03:51 PM
      Why not attack Betty Ford next? **  --  aficionadHOO   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:26:54 PM
         Or Maria Shriver? **  --  aficionadHOO   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:27:19 PM
            Or other Republicans' wives who've had problems with alcohol or driving? **  --  aficionadHOO   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:28:30 PM
      I'm sure they'll try to argue it was a medication imbalance  --  NorfolkHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:27:29 PM
      I respect Lugar as much as I do anyone in either party  --  HooBear   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:46:28 PM
      More sad than humorous.  --  DanTheFan   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:23:07 PM
         I agree also....and if the shoe were on the foot or the bottle in the other   --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:50:50 PM
            Of course they would, you idiot. DUIs are not a laughing matter. If you went to  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:53:36 PM
               I had no idea one had to attend UVa to understand DUIs....sorry...I did NOT   --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:53:16 PM
                  No, I'm sorry for calling you an idiot. Uncalled for. My apologies  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:02:48 PM
                     No problem. Don't get another. I have this standing offer to friends AND my son'  --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:46:14 PM
                        Thanks, CB. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:49:06 PM
         I agree. **  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:47:00 PM
            Yep. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:51:06 PM
   In it szeal to ban gay marriage, TX accidentally bans all marriage  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:03:18 PM
      Government needs to stay out of telling people how to live their  --  Galileo24   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:12:10 PM
         They should remove the term 'marriage' from all legal documents  --  HooBauer   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:20:37 AM
            With you on this one **  --  hatetheturtle   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:21:24 AM
      Dang, those Texans are smarter than I thought.  --  Galileo24   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:35:41 PM
      Pretty extreme to ban "traditional" marriage just to prevent same sex marriage **  --  CODCHOO   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:33:26 PM
         Funny that they're intolerant and they're idiots too! **  --  CODCHOO   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:44:57 PM
      I'd like to know where cvillerat is whining about Hood posting a link??? **  --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:12:44 PM
         Que? **  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:17:02 PM
            Jorge Bush darĂ­a a los homosexuales una buena paliza si aĂºn gobernador **  --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:40:49 PM
            Esto....................   --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:36:11 PM
               Holding on to a grudge, hu? **  --  hatetheturtle   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:04:09 PM
                  There goes the little man with the word hate in his name attempting to practice   --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:36:01 PM
                     Huh? Man, some of you guys are sensitive, **  --  hatetheturtle   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:14:51 AM
                     I've openly stated I'm a biased poster - what more do you want? **  --  cvillerat   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:29:56 PM
                        Consistency. I have no issue with you being partisan. It's a political  --  Teflon   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:56:22 PM
               Who cares? I'm looking for comment on my post  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:44:04 PM
                  Well it appears the attorney that's making the stink was in the Texas   --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:56:18 PM
                     Radnofsky? Per Wiki, she ran against and lost to Hutchison in '06  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:39:41 PM
                        I'm not sure I understand your question. What does her running against KBH have  --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:30:07 PM
                           Sorry, my point being that she was not in the state legislature... her claim to   --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:48:15 PM
                              You know vw I was reading a Fort Worth ST article about it and it quotes  --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:00:28 PM
                                 A strange thing for her to say, then. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:03:22 PM
                  Here's my thoughts, civil unions.   --  HAZER   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:51:57 PM
                     Exactly, Make'em all civil unions from a legal pov  --  HooBauer   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:03:21 PM
                        Completely agree with you and HAZER. Such a simple and fair idea. **  --  HooBear   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:48:12 PM
   Fazio from Oregon has some interesting things to say here. 2 questions  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:21:01 PM
      Try again with link this time  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:22:08 PM
   ClusterFox rigging the news again (link)  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:55:47 PM
      I always stand in constant amazement at the lack of decency  --  Shenhoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:26:00 PM
      Slacker. why were you silent when your leftist MSNBC did the same thing? **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:20:04 PM
         Bec MSNBC doesn't claim to be "fair and balanced" Faux a bunch of hypocrites **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:24:29 PM
            Your hero, Al Gore photoshopped cover of his new book. Whine about that **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:30:30 PM
               My hero? Link any post I have ever made in which I mention Gore. Don't think I   --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:34:10 AM
               Link  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:36:16 PM
               Link= how much does your buddy Soros pay people to watch FOX and nitpick? **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:33:02 PM
            True- unfortunately LESS THAN THE OTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!! **  --  turk   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:52:42 PM
      Trying to catch the NEW YORK TIMES ...  --  The 24 Car   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:54:15 PM
         In other words... king of the losers? That's great! **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:55:45 PM
      They'll get theres after the Great Leader nationalizes media. **  --  kail123   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:35:01 PM
      Re: ClusterFox rigs news again, apologizes (linked now)  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:24:03 PM
      Wow NorCal, that's big news. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Just so  --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:08:24 PM
         Aha! So you acknowledge Faux is partisan. Otherwise you wouldn't consider this  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:18:26 PM
            Are you upset that FOX balance out the biased reporting of your favorite leftist  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:22:40 PM
            Of course they're partisan...........DUH **  --  DAMHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:32:04 PM
            I think one would have to be an ostrich with their head in the sand or Rip Van   --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:28:52 PM
               Don't spoil his fun. He thought he had a gotcha moment there. **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:33:02 PM
         Kinda like the spambots posting about Gore and the earths temperature?  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:13:22 PM
            As someone who likes Gore, I'd have to say he deserves all the grief he gets  --  Galileo24   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:22:19 PM
            You could use a little maturity yourself **  --  turk   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:54:32 PM
            I haven't posted anything about Gore and the earth's temperature so I have no   --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:24:05 PM
            Or Dan Rather and Peter Jennings making things up out of whole cloth?  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:18:58 PM
               Or Fox making up news day in, day out?  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:31:24 PM
                  What news doesn't get a response of people when one turns on hte camera? that's   --  turk   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:56:14 PM
                  And then there's this from ABC  --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:53:08 PM
                     Umm...where is the left wing bias in this? **  --  AngusHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:47:32 PM
                        I don't think there is any left wing bias - I think it was sloppy   --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:39:30 PM
                     Wait, this is your big gotcha?  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:23:17 PM
                        Well according to you the only media that makes errors is Fox. You said Rather   --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:41:14 PM
                           I said nothing of the sort **  --  Hood   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:34:29 AM
                  More from CBS...............  --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:46:18 PM
                  Well, Hoodie....  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:44:17 PM
                     Rather has been kicked to the curb and Jennings is dead. **  --  DiHOOgenes   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:46:15 PM
                     It always bothers me, Doogie, when journos run amuck  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:14:13 PM
                        Disturbed that journalists from the   --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:30:03 PM
                           I will request, for the umpteenth time-Show me all this  --  AngusHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:43:40 PM
                              Here ya go:  --  Doug   Fri Nov 20 2009 8:27:52 AM
                              Only the most obtuse, kool aid drinkers among us would even ask for a link. Most  --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:50:21 PM
                              We can show it but you have to register it in your beta cells- check out Harvard  --  turk   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:58:45 PM
                                 Just show links man, it cant be that difficult if there is that much  --  AngusHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:11:48 PM
                           Yes, "amuck". You know, the word in the dictionary.   --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:43:48 PM
                              What nonsense....  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:11:43 PM
                                 Yawn.
ht
  --  Hood   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:02:22 PM
                                    Wonderful job dodging all the quotes listed below  --  Doug   Fri Nov 20 2009 12:56:45 PM
                              This is why you can never be taken seriously. **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:53:47 PM
                                 LOL. Coming from you, that's richer than Scrooge McDuck **  --  Hood   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:13:46 PM
                     Doug, there is for some reason a set of blinders on these guys  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:23:14 PM
                  And yet, without them, no one would have exposed ACORN, Van Jones, and Anita   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:35:46 PM
               Yes, and I'm sure this board was quiet as a mouse when Rather-Gate erupted. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:20:06 PM
                  This board may not have been [quiet]. But I'm guessing you  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:23:34 PM
                     Gladly, if only the archives went back that far. You didn't know that? **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:29:35 PM
                        Wonderful. Then paraphrase your outrage at Rather and Jennings so we might   --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:35:19 PM
                           Admittedly, I wasn't really outraged...  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:43:54 PM
                              Thanks for conceding that your outrage respecting various  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:50:31 PM
                                 I have no problem with conceding that. That still doesn't mean  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:54:12 PM
                                    Then elaborate. Provide facts. A semblance of outrage. Anything. Before we all  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:03:54 PM
                                       Do you honestly think anyone else is reading this garbage sub-thread besides you  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:18:34 PM
                                          Oh Well, but our colloquy commenced  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:59:16 PM
                                             That's not what I said.  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:21:04 PM
                                                Sorry, but I'm not believin' it. You compare imagined (in your feverish bin) Fox  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:41:00 PM
                                                   Have a good one, Doug. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:50:02 PM
                                                      You, too. Get your gear together in the interim though. **  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:16:06 PM
                                                         LOL! I'll do my best. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:25:22 PM
                           LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! **  --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:38:48 PM
                     Still waiting.... **  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:27:06 PM
                        I'm sure you are... **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:30:05 PM
                           You can count on it. Similarly, you can count on the fact that you've offered no  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:36:59 PM
      Another honest mistake. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:58:20 PM
      Kinda like the administration rigging the stimulus employment numbers huh **  --  DAMHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:45:58 PM
         Uh, no. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:47:37 PM
            Nice polysyllabic post. Care to elaborate? **  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:29:47 PM
               Uh, no. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:04:20 PM
                  Thanks for the admission. No smiley face. Got something  --  Doug   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:04:41 PM
                  So you equate a TV network misleading viewers  --  DAMHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:36:18 PM
                     Pssst...they are rigging, they aren't lying **  --  111Balz   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:45:58 PM
                        Psst answer the question................... **  --  DAMHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 4:50:41 PM
                        Sorry "aren't" for both **  --  111Balz   Fri Nov 20 2009 7:47:30 AM
            No? **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:58:37 PM
               No. Why waste the bandwidth. **  --  NorCalHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 11:38:20 AM
               I echo that, NO? **  --  DAMHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:22:21 PM
               (BTW, fix your link) **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:00:07 PM
                  It's missing the "ht" from "http" **  --  turk   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:02:34 PM
                     Hmm, so anyone can make a mistake, right? **  --  ryno hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:08:27 PM
                        I suppose... but over and over again? They're starting to get Colbertish. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:14:22 PM
                           From what I've heard, newspapers have regular Correction columns, even the NYT  --  ryno hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:18:30 PM
                              True. But we're not talking about newspapers. We're not even talking about news.  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:25:59 PM
                                 FNC has the utmost credibility with me. **  --  ryno hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:42:22 PM
                                    That's something we'll never agree on so we'll, again, agree to disagree. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:45:47 PM
                              Or labeling GOP officials as Dems when they do things Faux doesn't like  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:25:53 PM
                     Ah, right you are. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:05:38 PM
      Becoming par for the course for that "news" station **  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:39:46 PM
         They're so bad that the President even gave them a little interview the other  --  ryno hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:10:40 PM
            Yup. Gracious of him, considering that Fox has called him a racist....  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:11:47 PM
               At least be honest with your comments Hood..Beck said that not Fox **  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:42:24 PM
                  He said that on a FoxNews program and is paid by Fox **  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:08:09 PM
                     So that is the way it works. That means I can sue USA Network  --  HooBauer   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:33:14 PM
                        Exactly. FoxNews is all opinion. It's not fair and balanced. Thx! **  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:35:31 PM
                           I ask again for you to be honest. Fox did not say that Beck did  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:53:02 PM
                              Hasn't the case been made here, time and time again, that CBS bears  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:16:24 PM
                                 CBS bears none of it because they did what I expected them to do  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:43:14 PM
                                    Agreed with everything you just said. **  --  vwahoov   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:49:57 PM
   "We may not get back to full employment for a decade"  --  Stimp   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:51:56 PM
      I just cannot be convinced that you can sustain an economy on   --  Galileo24   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:20:04 PM
      Employment will only increase if it will benefit employers. Too much risk now. **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:02:43 PM
         The fact that Wall Street punishes comopanies for W-2 headcount is a huge factor **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:57:10 PM
            I have absolutely no idea what you mean, are you talking about stock  --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:29:58 PM
               See comments further down, BIL. My friend, you and I strongly share the same   --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:52:48 PM
                  (1) I'm not sure "Wall Street" cares all that much whether a company  --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:02:52 PM
               Share price. WS rewards for use of contractors, punishes for full time   --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:53:58 PM
                  But if you are a contractor are you not employed?  --  RML Hoos   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:45:57 PM
                     Yes, but the "contractee is not on the hook for benefits, employer FICA,  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:49:37 PM
                  I must be dense. I have no clue what you are talking about in this thread. **  --  HootiesJohnson   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:02:14 PM
                     See my comments to others in this thread. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:53:20 PM
                     Think IT jobs ....... **  --  capwater   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:10:18 PM
                        BMW Greenville SC just added 700 hc and a second shift, all contractor,   --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:51:10 PM
                        Still not clicking. How does WS reward use of contractors? **  --  HootiesJohnson   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:24:02 PM
                           I'll use an example. good friend is VPM of a F500 transp co. tells me rev  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:47:13 PM
                              Yup, still makes no sense.  --  HootiesJohnson   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:59:30 PM
      The downside to being a service based economy. **  --  kail123   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:56:34 PM
         Part of it, another big part is the "stacked against you" environment  --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:11:48 PM
         Hear hear. We find ways to get back to making stuff or we're screwed. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:58:12 PM
            Can you do that without more protectionist trade policies? **  --  hawkb   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:00:59 PM
               Isn't that the rub? our wages + regulatory environment  --  BuckHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:04:35 PM
               Yeah, if we find ways to manufacture things more efficiently.  --  kail123   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:02:03 PM
                  Can Americans work for less and afford health care? **  --  Shenhoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:52:24 PM
                  Hard to get lower than 55 cents in China....  --  fphoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:26:03 PM
                  Some of both, + right tax, investment, social, environmental policies, etc.   --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:56:16 PM
                     The federal government is becomming more and more of a burdon as well. **  --  kail123   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:31:23 PM
                        Has been for a long time. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:54:31 PM
   War is not Conservative by Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-Tenn.)  --  Joey Wahoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:27:04 PM
      It is interesting to see the reactions. Duncan is exactly right. Conservative  --  Galileo24   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:17:03 PM
      I agree, not so much because of the costs, but because interventionist foreign  --  Teflon   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:23:40 PM
      Joey - here are some earlier thoughts from the S'box faithful on the matter.  --  Stimp   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:55:39 PM
         Interesting. I typed a response and dialed out.  --  Shenhoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:00:05 PM
      (Stands up and cheers - yeah!!) Finally a voice of reason from teh right. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:51:50 PM
      Hell, let's get rid of the military all together. All it's doing is adding to   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:44:19 PM
         Having a strong military to defend the country is a bedrock  --  KCHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:01:05 PM
            Agree to disagree **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:02:25 PM
               Its like agreeing to disagree that 2+2+4. those are simply  --  KCHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:10:32 PM
                  I'm not really sure where these conservative principles are defined  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:16:16 PM
                  = **  --  KCHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:12:50 PM
         You know you waste $5.99 a month. **  --  Lazarus   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:51:35 PM
      Ya gotta give 'em credit, when the Republicans are out of power,   --  Lazarus   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:36:53 PM
         Rep. Duncan was one of a handful of Republicans who voted against...  --  Joey Wahoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:42:46 PM
            Excellent, didn't remember any did. If Hil had, she'd be pres now.  --  Lazarus   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:48:54 PM
               BO did not only because he was not in congress **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:00:30 PM
               Blame it on Buckley...Seriously  --  hawkb   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:59:48 PM
                  What huge military do you speak of?   --  HooBauer   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:04:29 PM
   AOL offering buyouts to ALL employees  --  Stimp   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:52:14 PM
      That is certainly tempting if you have another job lined up **  --  Grimlock   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:22:25 PM
   Did Holder refuse to discuss conflict of interest by DOJ attorneys on NYC trials  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:17:56 AM
      The lawyers defending some of these killers should be ashamed of themselves.  --  ryno hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:29:55 AM
         Not a big fan of the Sixth Amendment, I see? Perhaps we should just have  --  WahooRQ   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:02:22 PM
            Lawyer you say, honesty too tough **  --  turk   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:00:08 PM
               Come again, Yoda? **  --  WahooRQ   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:19:39 PM
         We should let a king or queen decide guilt or innocence...and then lynch them if  --  CavBank   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:58:09 AM
            Obama has already said they will get a fair trial, conviction and death penalty. **  --  Texas Hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:07:27 PM
               Actually it was that complainers won't find it:  --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:12:05 PM
                  As if Bush's military tribunals would have been otherwise. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:24:29 PM
                     How do you figure that? The military trials are done behind the scene  --  HooBauer   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:42:38 PM
                        You damned well know BushCo would have made those tribunals a running promo for   --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:54:14 PM
                           Maybe the results but there would have been no media fest  --  HooBauer   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:08:21 PM
                              Ha! BushCo owuld have had a controlled, contrived media fest to broadcast  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:57:05 PM
                     True, they're both show trials, because they're unquestionably guilty and even  --  Tiki Time   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:27:15 PM
                        They are not unquestionably guilty. Guilt, in the context of a trial,  --  Howdy-Hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:04:20 PM
                        Does that suggest you would have been happy to let BushCo put on this show  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:30:02 PM
                           No, I was referring to KSM putting on the show.  --  Tiki Time   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:49:23 PM
                           I repeat, a military trial is not a dog and pony show.  --  HooBauer   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:44:58 PM
                              BusCo would have made it a dog and pony show. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:55:36 PM
                                 Is this an admission that Obama and the libs are doing the same thing? **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:06:37 PM
                                    Counterpoin tto the accusation that Obama and the libs are doing the same thing **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:59:38 PM
                                       So Obama and the libs ARE grandstanding? **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:15:04 PM
                                          That's the claim that started this. Mine is the counter claim. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:27:22 PM
                                             So your belief is that Obama is NOT grandstanding by trying GITMOs, etc. in   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:39:25 PM
                                 I am no bush fan   --  usafuva   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:01:51 PM
                                    Nope. Providing fair and balanced editorial commentary. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:58:13 PM
                                    The syndrome lives on....this guy cant post without mentioning W **  --  TomKazanski   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:38:25 PM
                                       He may be gone but his legacy lives on ... **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:00:33 PM
                                          Hey, you better watch out. Bush has his own Institute now.  --  ryno hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:13:30 PM
                                             LOL. Well played ryno **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:21:31 PM
                           I would rather combatants be tried by the military than a criminal court so  --  Texas Hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:39:12 PM
                              I would too but only if we treat them as POWs under the geneva convention **  --  KCHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:11:35 PM
                                 Serious question KC, doesnt that require them to have fought  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:48:09 PM
                                    There is a grey area IMO as to whether the can get the rights under the  --  KCHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:06:51 PM
                                       Thank you **  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:31:21 PM
                                    Hoo coined the term "enemy combatant," and what exactly does it mean? **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:57:01 PM
                                       I could be off on my verbiage there. I was in a rush and could be   --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:33:58 PM
                                       Hmmm  --  usafuva   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:10:23 PM
                                          Yup! **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:28:42 PM
                           I for one am concerned about (1) the costs involved, (2) the chance  --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:33:16 PM
         Ryno, if you really believe that you simply do not grasp America's system of   --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:20:16 AM
            Not to get all elitest and such but a thread started by hookem..................  --  Chuck Taylor   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:03:33 PM
            Unlike the terrorists' military counsel, the Covington & Burling libs didn't  --  Tiki Time   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:39:50 AM
               That's what I'm talking about.  --  ryno hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:10:31 PM
                  If I'm defense counsel I fight like hell for my client. That's the way our   --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:28:41 PM
                     As a defense counsel would be effective if you became prosecutor in same case? **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:47:47 PM
                     The reasons have been expressed here over and over again and throughout the   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:05:00 PM
                        The "reasons" are right wing nut case bull hockey. **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:46:59 PM
                           We'll see what the American public thinks about that. **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:50:57 PM
                        Should we have had the Nuremburg trials?  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:08:54 PM
                           What about the tens of thousands of family members of those civilians in Iraq   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:21:16 PM
                              Or, alternatively, we can just ignore your panty-twisting....  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:22:28 PM
                                 Well, if that is the conclusion, why try him at all? Let's just fry him right   --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:24:18 PM
                                    Uhhhh......  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:34:22 PM
                                       Did dat one fwy wight ovah yuh head too?  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:47:50 PM
                              You didn't really answer his question. **  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:23:17 PM
                                 Nothing gets by you. **  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:30:56 PM
               Also represent Haliburton. Damn liberals! **  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:51:16 AM
                  And Philip Morris -- commies, the lot of them! **  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:51:40 AM
                     They have to represent someone to offset the 3,000 hours of free, top flight  --  Tiki Time   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:25:05 PM
                        The point  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:37:44 PM
                           C&B has a reputation of being very liberal, I'm sure like all firms  --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:50:20 PM
                              Just to clarify -- this is the C&B that counts John Bolton, Michael Chertoff  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:19:11 PM
                                 C&B is a classic DC insider firm  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:41:08 PM
                                    If you ask any competent attorney to list their 5 most "liberal" firms  --  2011BIL   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:14:18 PM
                                       I'm a competent attorney, and I say  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Fri Nov 20 2009 9:59:27 AM
                                 Yep -- I have radar vision when it comes to spotting empty suits. **  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:36:26 PM
                        Put another way,  --  ryno hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:28:18 PM
                        Yeah, God forbid those people get counsel  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:28:17 PM
            It is unethical for lawyer to oppose former client in same case- **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:25:28 AM
               Which is precisely why it won't happen here.  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:48:07 AM
                  Read link first-Holder refused to answer the question. Why if no conflict?  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:36:52 PM
                     Because providing a list of recusals and the reasons therefor.....  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:07:38 PM
                        Why, it is done all the time in other cases. DOJ already knows & are a party.   --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:51:24 PM
                     I read it. That's how I was able to conclude that, once again, you don't know  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:42:37 PM
         Lawyers and ashamed don't even go in the same sentence together. There are many,  --  kingralf   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:50:30 AM
            Like what? **  --  NaturalMysticHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:05:31 AM
               Watched tv sometime and see some of the ambulance chasing ads. **  --  kingralf   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:42:45 PM
                  Because a handful of ambulance chasers are representative of all lawyers  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:42:58 PM
         Ashamed because they are defending them?  --  RML Hoos   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:48:38 AM
            Nope, for representing both sides in same case **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:26:51 AM
            You beat me to it RML. But history & our system of justice is lost on them. **  --  Lazarus   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:02:52 AM
            Even the ones who are captured on the battlefield, in a foreign country,   --  kingralf   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:53:42 AM
               Not if we treat them as POWs. You don't pring a POW to court though.  --  RML Hoos   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:42:12 PM
               If we chose to bring them here and treat them as criminals -- yes  --  KCHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:58:59 AM
                  That's why it's ignorant to bring them here. DUH **  --  kingralf   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:40:40 PM
               KSM captured in Pakistan, I think in Quetta or Islamabad **  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:56:31 AM
            Don't you get it?  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:51:20 AM
               No the don't get that this is about US..........................................  --  Chuck Taylor   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:09:25 PM
                  Last I checked, KSM is not a U.S. citizen. It's pretty simple. **  --  HAZER   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:02:26 PM
                     Maybe if we treat him like one, they will like us? **  --  HooBauer   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:10:42 PM
                        Exactly. What a bunch of b.s. **  --  HAZER   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:29:23 PM
                           Why you hate America/ **  --  NorCalHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:06:50 PM
                              I would like to keep American rights to just us Americans, problem? **  --  HAZER   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:45:35 PM
               Both sides in same case? has to be conflict. **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:29:34 AM
   Just in time for Black Friday...  --  crooked road   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:26:12 AM
      BTTS- not a ban, just regulation. :) **  --  ryno hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:55:00 AM
         Actually, bans sale of 75% of TVs in Calif.--virtually all plasmas.  --  Tiki Time   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:28:45 PM
   I thought Dr. Paul's FED audit idea would never pass.  --  Stimp   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:16:12 AM
      As expected a last minute amendment makes it worthless  --  black dog   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:27:46 AM
         Denninger's take  --  HireGrobeFireGroh   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:44:38 AM
      What are you talking about? This is clearly a Democrat idea!  --  Hokie5150   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:25:19 AM
      I never thought deficit would exceed $1.4 trillion **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:17:19 AM
   Federal Coercion  --  capwater   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:58:05 AM
      What will be more interesting is the press treatment of the the hospital that  --  81_Hokie   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:14:52 AM
   The Constitution is some 4 pages long. The senate HC bill is 2074 pages.   --  HAZER   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:12:42 AM
      I'm certain there are many, many members of Congress who've never read either. **  --  aficionadHOO   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:53:13 AM
      I realize this is just a Radio talking point, but trying to understand why you   --  Lazarus   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:34:43 AM
         My assumption is that people are just extremely frustrated that its length makes  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:51:21 PM
            From what I have read, these Bills are full of legalize referring from one sub-  --  Lazarus   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:58:11 PM
               This kind of stuff doesnt give me more trust, only less  --  thor9hammer   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:48:22 PM
               Yeah, and I skip all the FAR stuff in my contracts.   --  HAZER   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:55:56 PM
         Blessed be the naysayers though they suffer through Obama, eh?  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:40:50 AM
      Loopholes.  --  crooked road   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:27:20 AM
         Loophole argument works both ways.  --  FxHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:51:05 AM
      Trivia question. what movie?  --  Wahoo Ron   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:37:52 AM
         WTG,, trav **  --  Wahoo Ron   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:09:08 AM
         Jurrasic Park **  --  Traveller   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:06:37 AM
      Toilet paper **  --  DAMHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:58:05 AM
   #$%^&* Gov. Kaine closing the $%&*((## rest areas!!!!!!!!!!  --  1995hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:06:51 AM
      Budget cost reduction is often a game of nickels and dimes.  --  Hood   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:55:47 AM
      Agree. Why not make them tolls??  --  Uncle Ronnie   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:05:43 AM
         Agreed. **  --  HAZER   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:00:16 PM
         Who's going to pay to use the toilet when there are gas stations and restaurants  --  DiHOOgenes   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:34:08 AM
            These places could also start requiring a purchase to use their bathrooms. **  --  Hoo SB   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:43:44 AM
               Why would they do that? **  --  DiHOOgenes   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:25:44 PM
                  Why wouldn't they?   --  HAZER   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:59:31 PM
                     Maybe because they know there are enough suckers like you who will buy that coke **  --  DiHOOgenes   Thu Nov 19 2009 3:54:30 PM
                        Maybe they're hoping white trash won't drop a deuce w/o buying something? **  --  HAZER   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:31:39 PM
                           That's the risk they run. Ever hear the phrase "get them in the door?" **  --  DiHOOgenes   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:48:35 PM
               Give me a diablo sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it quick  --  Stimp   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:55:36 AM
         Nice  --  Hoo SB   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:18:34 AM
      No fan of kainr but really....there are bathrooms at every exit already  --  champthehoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:43:13 AM
         We were already running late as it was....  --  1995hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:03:50 AM
            The bladder part was a joke. but the arguement about rest stops is weak  --  champthehoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 2:02:39 PM
            He has a valid point that there are fast food places/gas stations every few  --  KCHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:29:11 AM
            Maybe because he is full of it? **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:19:48 AM
         Seems like an obvious call  --  Stimp   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:12:29 AM
      He's got to cut expenses somewhere, bad as it is...  --  crooked road   Thu Nov 19 2009 7:22:12 AM
         We agree on this.  --  aficionadHOO   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:55:01 AM
      Outsource them to a private company would actually generate revenue  --  uvajmufan   Thu Nov 19 2009 6:48:01 AM
         Absent some exemption, I believe federal law prohibits that. **  --  ArlHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 11:50:51 AM
         A vending machine co.? Starbucks? I think McDonnell wants to look at private  --  Tiki Time   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:46:21 AM
            Depends on exit. Some are more than a mile. Waste of gas and time. **  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:43:28 AM
      It does seem like a cosmetic symbolic event...more..  --  GoochlandHoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 4:47:20 AM
         Kaine's not left anything to McDonnell he's not already dealt with...  --  crooked road   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:34:56 AM
      Seriously how much could they be saving by closing a bathroom? **  --  kail123   Thu Nov 19 2009 1:18:57 AM
         They do not clean or maintain themselves. **  --  Automator   Thu Nov 19 2009 10:15:11 AM
         Mere PR-it's just like closing Washington Monument or Warner with DMV  --  SRFord   Thu Nov 19 2009 9:14:39 AM
         That's just it—the figures they cited were fairly minimal in the overall budget. **  --  1995hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:43:06 AM
      Maybe they should raise taxes so you wont $hit your pants **  --  cvillerat   Thu Nov 19 2009 12:48:01 AM
         Nah, I didn't have to "sit" yesterday, thankfully. **  --  1995hoo   Thu Nov 19 2009 8:43:29 AM
         Whatever happned to pay toilets? You know," Pay as you go" **  --  Wahoo Ron   Thu Nov 19 2009 5:55:55 AM
   Stimulus question  --  usafuva   Wed Nov 18 2009 10:58:18 PM

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