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A budget calculation by TB April 10, 2012 9:05 am

No one's arguing we don't have a deficit. The question is what are we willing to give up to ... by ER 2012-04-10 09:31:40
- The point, not surprisingly, completely escaped you. by TB 2012-04-10 11:35:50
  - I haven't got a clue what you're talking about. by ER 2012-04-10 11:45:01
    - If you're serious, someone else will get it. by TB 2012-04-10 11:49:22
      - The only appropriate response by ER 2012-04-10 13:07:33
        
        More accurately, the only available response. by TB 2012-04-10 13:43:04
        
        That settles it. No more Mr Nice Guy! by ER 2012-04-10 14:09:07
        
        He is kinda cute ER. by Jody 2012-04-10 16:32:00
        
        Is his tongue pierced? by ER 2012-04-11 06:33:20
        
        LMFAO!!! You rock ER!!!! by Jody 2012-04-11 08:40:34

I wonder if it is tempting fate? by Jeff-Wash April 10, 2012 1:17 pm

Since this reply page is a better medium to type on, I will ask you here, is it tempting fate ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-04-10 13:34:30
- Believe me, there are radar-assisted collisions and GPS-assisted groundings all the time. And no mechanical malfunctions are required. I mean, ... by ER 2012-04-10 14:16:32
Let me guess...(spoiler alert) by ER 2012-04-10 13:20:54

From a purely tactical perspective... by ER April 9, 2012 10:36 am

I think one factor is arrogance. After electing George W. Bush twice, George H. W. Bush once and Ronald ... by bowser 2012-04-09 11:40:15
- I'm not sure that computes. Sure Reagan was ideologically pure, charismatic, and ultimately successful. Bush I, McCain and Dole were highly ... by ER 2012-04-09 13:18:35
  - With all due respect. (Doesn't that belong on another thread?) Reagan presented to the public well, was glib, ... by bowser 2012-04-09 15:06:44
    - Man, and I thought I was a cynic. 8) by ER 2012-04-09 15:56:14
      - The more you see, the more you read, the grimmer it gets. :-) by bowser 2012-04-09 21:03:06

So what happened in Sanford? by ER April 7, 2012 3:43 pm

"Romney, GOP must remember lessons from Palin veepstakes" by bowser April 5, 2012 2:39 pm

I've puzzled over this and gone back over it. The issue seems to be that the police request for ... by bowser 2012-04-06 12:04:51
Well, as the article says, you sure want to avoid anyone who has "been on the job for just a few years, or lack[s], the experience of having previously gone through the vetting process and campaigning on the national level." by TB 2012-04-05 16:25:19
- How do you reconcile that with your avid support of Palin in the last election. It wasn't just McCain ... by bowser 2012-04-05 19:23:14
  - Reconcile what? Cripes, did that go over your head? by TB 2012-04-05 21:16:53
    - You've gone from claiming the Republicans have all but won the election to making excuses for losing. Even before ... by bowser 2012-04-05 21:41:03
- One thing is certain, the VP nominee won't be Santorum. n/t by RobVG 2012-04-05 16:37:53
  - There's a lot of people who would be good VP candidates, and would make damn good presidents down the road. by TB 2012-04-05 18:25:47
    - Who is surfacing? by bowser 2012-04-05 20:24:50

NBC caught doctoring Zimmerman 911 call. by Lee April 1, 2012 7:35 pm

Pretty much looks as if the right-wing conspiracy people who have politicized this entire thing are the only folks particularly ... by bowser 2012-04-02 19:55:33
*Sighs* Okay, NBC is just as biased as Fox. That's a given. There are many channels on TV and sources ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-02 15:50:20
- NBC is a national news source founded in 1926. Fox is a cable show that's been around since 1996. This ... by RobVG 2012-04-03 08:58:30
Police video update, by TB 2012-04-02 09:54:05
I'm not sure what the big deal is. Zimmerman says the fellow is up to no good. The ... by bowser 2012-04-01 23:17:58
- I take it this is one of your "Watch 'em disassemble" comments. by RobVG 2012-04-02 08:23:09
  - I truly don't see that omission as causing any harm. I think the outrage expressed here is manufactured by ... by bowser 2012-04-02 10:42:41
    - The edit changed what was an answer to a police question to what sounded like a racist judgment. by TB 2012-04-02 12:09:40
  - You’ve become as blinded by politics as you accuse us of being. I KNOW! To be honest, I never even looked at ... by Jody 2012-04-02 09:13:05
    - Maybe I was wrong about you It's tough sometimes to understand comments here because we've been so sarcastic in the past. ... by RobVG 2012-04-02 10:11:58
      - ? I don't understand Rob..."wrong about me?" by Jody 2012-04-02 15:49:55
        
        No wonder you didn't understand by RobVG 2012-04-02 19:25:32
        
        It's all good Rob....quite honestly...I have a hard time understanding my own comments sometimes......so I just figured I had ... by Jody 2012-04-03 08:56:25
        
        OH! You thought I was being sarcastic? Nope. Disgusted. The public is at the mercy of spin doctors. by Jody 2012-04-02 16:07:30
Astounding by RobVG 2012-04-01 22:05:28
- Yep...I heard about that today also. Nothing...NOTHING is EVER what it seems. NBC got caught. Not like it has never been ... by Jody 2012-04-01 22:10:42
  - Think about the decades of our lives when the mainstream media was the only media. by TB 2012-04-02 09:22:13
  - Gabrielle Giffords comes to mind by RobVG 2012-04-01 23:00:30

I figure those lights were aliens buying Mega-Millions tickets by FrankC March 30, 2012 3:13 pm

I got mine! by TB 2012-03-30 15:23:38
- Woot! by TB 2012-03-31 07:54:37
  - That is very close. But you'd have had to share it with 3 other winners, so what the heck. by bowser 2012-04-01 07:50:38

I'm ashamed of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. by Jeff-Wash March 31, 2012 12:32 pm

I don't know anyone who is particularly proud of them. Jackson, in particular, would offer to solve problems arising ... by bowser 2012-03-31 16:01:41

Richard Branson loses race to deepest part of ocean... by TB March 30, 2012 5:16 pm

Sort of like the Moon, I guess. The race wasn't about getting there, but getting back. by bowser 2012-03-31 07:26:54

This is my idea of an American soldier. by bowser March 30, 2012 12:37 am

Soldiers like that are the rule, not the exception. Good men and women. by TB 2012-03-30 10:35:01

This may be grim. The other shootings with two stories. by bowser March 29, 2012 8:35 pm

More Sanford shooting news. by ER March 28, 2012 8:44 pm

Commentary by Victor Davis Hanson by TB 2012-03-29 09:44:45
- Another commentary, from American Spectator. by TB 2012-03-29 09:52:04
  - Tucker's comments are more in line with my own. I remember Hanson mostly as the Right's expert on the ... by ER 2012-03-29 11:04:43
I think the biggest question of all here is, why the hell is this getting so much more publicity than ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-28 22:00:54
- The short answer is because the "War on Women" fell on its face. :) by TB 2012-03-29 09:38:12
  - You obviously haven't been keeping up with the beating the GOP is taking in the polls from women, or maybe ... by ER 2012-03-29 11:08:02
    - The Virginia poll can be found here. by TB 2012-03-29 14:00:53
      - Not to worry, TB. We'll see to it your tribe gets full credit for the mandatory vaginal ultrasound probe ... by ER 2012-03-29 17:45:20
        
        That's okay. Look at the list of the things "your tribe" is going to be getting "credit" for next election. by TB 2012-03-29 19:28:29
- My question is why is this story getting so much attention now when it happened about a month ago? by ER 2012-03-29 06:11:24
  - It's difficult to track a story back to when it first became widely controversial. by TB 2012-03-29 09:37:15
    - What exactly "blew up on them"? Nowhere in the ABC story is it implied Zimmerman was Anglo or Republican. And it ... by ER 2012-03-29 11:17:07
Police Report by RobVG 2012-03-28 21:19:36
Good assessment by RobVG 2012-03-28 21:05:13
- Its politics because race relations and conflict in America are political. It is and has always been the fundamental political ... by ER 2012-03-29 05:58:25
The irritating part is that the evidence should be lined up already for the authorities. by TB 2012-03-28 20:55:24
- I suspect that regardless of what happened between Martin and Zimmerman, the police investigation was botched, and all this confusion ... by ER 2012-03-29 05:26:19

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