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Mitch Daniels not running for Prez by mcfly May 22, 2011 6:53 am

Right now, the shit-storm is blowing completely from the right. It ain't the lamestream media that's attacking Romney and Gingrich. ... by ER 2011-05-22 13:44:36
- Agreed. The media's nothing compared to the torches and pitchforks wielded by the Tea Party. Lifelong conservatives cast aside as ... by mcfly 2011-05-22 18:38:50
- Something to remember: The election victory in 2010 was driven by ideas from the right, including the Tea Party ... by TB 2011-05-22 14:13:19
  - "You can tell what scares Democrats by what they attack." Well, you have my unqualified agreement on that. The Post-Reagan ... by ER 2011-05-22 14:32:55
    - "Post-Reagan?" As though Reagan's administration and ideas are considered by all right-thinking reasonable people as representing "good" Republicans? Nice try. The ... by TB 2011-05-22 15:24:14
      - Post and Pre Reagan, and Goldwater and McCarthy too. I make no apologies. TB, I simply don't like your ... by ER 2011-05-22 15:36:10
        
        It shows. :) by TB 2011-05-22 16:00:40
- Tell me what political positions qualify those people as lunatics. I understand the label, like most of them, is ... by TB 2011-05-22 13:55:09
  - Wake up, TB, Gingrich is an unprincipled SOB who's own party staged a palace revolution and kicked him out of ... by ER 2011-05-22 14:26:21
This situation cannot continue indefinitely. Eventually, a reasonable Republican will emerge that can be embraced by enough people in ... by ER 2011-05-22 08:19:24
- I can tell you right now what's keeping a lot of Republicans out is the certain knowledge of the shitstorm ... by TB 2011-05-22 13:19:39

Wisconsin recount: Prosser still wins by TB May 20, 2011 9:16 pm

Well, she picked up some 300 votes in the recount. At that rate, 19 more recounts and it's a race. Yeah, ... by mcfly 2011-05-21 09:31:10
- dotorg by Eri 2011-05-21 17:56:35

Meanwhile, back at the Democratic Senate by TB May 20, 2011 11:28 am

Jeez, TB, how could you let this happen? by Eri May 21, 2011 6:16 am

You're being lied to. If you care, I can tell you exactly how. If not, I won't bother. by TB 2011-05-21 12:47:40
- That is a broad statement. Who's lying and about what? Is the new guy bad? Or is ... by Eri 2011-05-21 17:50:00
  - Anyone telling you that the problem with education is "not enough spending" is lying. There is no correlation between ... by TB 2011-05-21 19:57:01
    - Shorter version: 1. We're spending more money now on education than we ever have, for arguably worse results than when we ... by TB 2011-05-21 20:12:00
  - : ) by ER 2011-05-21 18:42:18

It never rains but it pours by Eri May 20, 2011 7:24 pm

This is how the dems go after those who dare oppose them. Thee political death machine is in full ... by Lee 2011-05-21 12:09:45
- Trump is a joke. His life and his finances won't stand up to scrutiny and that has nothing to ... by Eri 2011-05-21 17:59:33
  - The one thing I've never been able to understand is if liberals are so stupid, weak, evil, pathetic and cowardly, ... by ER 2011-05-22 10:13:37
    - It turned out that the Nazi Master Race was actually "the inferior mongrelized breed." They certainly acted like a ... by Eri 2011-05-22 12:16:43
      - The Nazis got it wrong on all counts. From a purely Darwinian point of view, the "mongrelized" strain is always ... by ER 2011-05-22 12:48:49
        
        Bingo. The more mixing, the better. When you pick out a dog, get a mutt every time. ... by TB 2011-05-22 12:55:28
        
        He's a lucky man. Brazilians are gorgeous. "Oye como va, mi ritmo, bueno pa' gozar, mulata." by ER 2011-05-22 13:07:06
        
        Yeah, but according to my son they can be a bit, well, mercurial. by TB 2011-05-22 13:33:29
        
        Better mercurial than saturnine. by ER 2011-05-22 13:49:35
Is that really him? Not sure I've seen him smile before. by mcfly 2011-05-20 19:59:40
- That's him but I think someone dropped a vat of butter on his head. Acckkkkkk. The hair and ... by Eri 2011-05-20 23:26:18
  - The Donald and Callista Gingrich have the same barber. by ER 2011-05-21 09:36:14

Leftist cartoonist gets his wakeup call by TB May 19, 2011 4:16 pm

A lot of righties are getting rude awakenings, too. It's inevitable in a society that has become as polarized as ... by ER 2011-05-19 17:19:07
- I agree. The wing nutz on both sides have a death grip on political dialog (if it can still be ... by mcfly 2011-05-19 18:19:39
- I find it interesting that "lunatic fringe" is now defined as anyone who thinks that socialism isn't going to be ... by TB 2011-05-19 18:09:11
  - TB, you're not growing older, you're getting bitter. You want criteria, bucko? How about the biggest economic collapse since the ... by ER 2011-05-19 19:40:18
    - Fine, I hope we do it your way. I hope nothing is done and the whole system falls into ... by Lee 2011-05-21 12:16:09
    - Okay. First, every bit of your first paragraph is crap. I could pull up the facts - again ... by TB 2011-05-19 20:34:11
      - Nothing new in any of that, Tom, just your usual Neocon bilgewater We've heard it all before, with and without ... by ER 2011-05-20 06:43:45
        
        Cripes, you don't even use the word "neocon" correctly. by TB 2011-05-20 07:52:40
        
        Probably not. Troglodyte taxonomy is not very high on my list of priorities right now. by ER 2011-05-20 08:21:16
        
        Then use a taxonomy you can work with. I'm flexible. by TB 2011-05-20 08:37:55
        
        It really isn't about correct facts and incorrect facts nowadays. It's about "good" facts and "bad" facts. Or ... by TB 2011-05-20 07:22:18
        
        TB, I'm not about to let the "correctness" of my facts be decided by someone who equates suspicion of the ... by ER 2011-05-20 08:41:54
        
        "TB, I’m not about to let the 'correctness' of my facts be decided..." "Decided?" Bingo. In a recent poll, a "generic" ... by TB 2011-05-20 09:00:55
        
        Another demographic heard from HERE. Maybe they've discovered that an administration that has declared war on the private sector ... by TB 2011-05-20 09:08:11
        
        TB, your "far left" starts way to the right of me. But even taking that into account, if you ... by ER 2011-05-20 09:33:14
        
        "TB, your “far left” starts way to the right of me." No. It doesn't. And I have never called ... by TB 2011-05-20 09:54:04
        
        I'm sorry, Tom. That was not an explanation. That was a justification. I just do not agree ... by ER 2011-05-20 10:09:47
        
        I've said this before: if someone would nail a term down hard enough so it holds still, I'll be ... by TB 2011-05-20 10:40:26
        
        Nice to see that this board "squishes" to the right like the other ones. Nostalgia... by TB 2011-05-20 11:30:14
        
        Sure, sure...squishing to the RIGHT's just fine wiith you, isn't it? What about left squishers, huh??? by mcfly 2011-05-20 12:48:37
        
        A SIMPLE DESULTORY PHILIPPIC Paul Simon I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored. I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd. I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till ... by ER 2011-05-20 13:50:18
        
        I've never heard those lyrics. What a hoot! I assume that's to Linda Ronstadt's song tune for When Will ... by Eri 2011-05-22 12:20:51
        
        That actually works in "squish!" by TB 2011-05-20 22:12:27
        
        Let's see if it squishes more. We got to get a pun going one of these days. by Eri 2011-05-22 12:22:20
      - True, 2010 happened...past tense. The future's a blank slate. If the roster of potential GOP contenders continues to run from ... by mcfly 2011-05-20 04:25:13
        
        Trump is an idiot, at least in politics. Keep in mind the mainstream media essentially is the party organ ... by TB 2011-05-20 06:57:28
        
        Well, I'm not going to dispute your assertions...you could well be correct. Everytime I think I've got a feel for ... by mcfly 2011-05-20 10:06:49
        
        PPS...I meant "eases ON the brakes on spending..." As in "applies them with some degree of restraint." As in, "is a surgeon, ... by mcfly 2011-05-20 10:29:43
        
        PS...I WISH I was an idiot like Trump. (I know what you're all thinking and it isn't nice.) With all his ... by mcfly 2011-05-20 10:10:39
        
        You may get your chance yet, McFly, with a Gingrich-Bachmann ticket. I'm sure the GOP could field candidates which could ... by ER 2011-05-20 05:13:09
        
        Thanks goodness for m-w.com! "...half the Republican constituency considers them too “socialist”." It's been interesting to watch. Some of the Tea Partiers ... by mcfly 2011-05-20 10:19:57
        
        The problem is that both "compromise" and "extreme" have been redefined. Obamacare, and its method of passage, was not ... by TB 2011-05-20 10:53:12
        
        Point taken. I see both sides as culpable in this, though. As we've recently seen, too many "fiscal conservatives" have a ... by mcfly 2011-05-20 11:11:38
        
        The 2010 election was about economics. Go back and look at what the Republicans ran on. Try and ... by TB 2011-05-20 11:22:05
  - The latest Medicare trustees report can be found HERE. I call particular attention to the actuarial opinion at the end of ... by TB 2011-05-19 18:37:17
It's a sad state for political affairs when both sides are corrupt and can't take an attack like a man. ... by Eri 2011-05-19 16:35:11
- I heard on TV today some enterprising entrepreneurs are advertising on the net a pet boarding service to cater to ... by ER 2011-05-19 17:25:55
  - Revelations describes the host of heaven as riding down from heaven on many white horses. As I see it, ... by TB 2011-05-19 18:14:22
Good idea! I'll try that, too. so I can quit typing "Link Here." (no link there in case ... by Eri 2011-05-19 16:24:04
- The smiley showed up. The interface is very eccentric. I've noticed myself refreshing or reloading pages a lot ... by TB 2011-05-19 16:26:34
  - Eccentric? Diabolical is more like it. by ER 2011-05-19 19:45:04

Mississippi floods by TB May 19, 2011 4:04 pm

what is a page vs. a post by FrankC May 18, 2011 10:56 am

So much for web research by Eri May 19, 2011 12:30 pm

I'm getting in the habit of "feeling" posts with my mouse to look for links. I've tried underlining or ... by TB 2011-05-19 15:41:20

Any AT&T I-phone, I-pad users here? by Eri May 19, 2011 7:24 am

They are a bunch of ass holes. My land lines are with Comcast but my cells are with them Like Tom, ... by FrankC 2011-05-19 14:40:51
I can't afford to purchase high usage plans. Period. I can no longer do physical shopping. Everything ... by Eri 2011-05-19 12:35:16
- My wife can't do physical shopping either, but we've adapted to using online a lot. She buys clothes and ... by TB 2011-05-19 15:35:17
  - Returning things are a pain in the ass requiring obtaining packaging (if it didn't come with the product where you ... by Eri 2011-05-19 16:20:56
    - One thing a lot of Amazon purchases will do for you is get you a nice collection of boxes of ... by TB 2011-05-19 16:29:51
Anybody who has a "smartphone" of any kind really needs to buy a plan that has high or unlimited data ... by TB 2011-05-19 09:33:28
- My family plan for non-smart phones is unlimited for texting and data. When you go to a smart phone or ... by FrankC 2011-05-19 13:11:19
- Wouldn't do it any other way. We've got 5Gig monthly limit per phone. High, but not impossible to reach if ... by mcfly 2011-05-19 11:03:10

Stuck on stupid by TB May 18, 2011 5:52 pm

GM is going to install a six acre, 516 kilowatt solar energy system that will save them $15,000 a year. For ... by TB 2011-05-18 18:45:42
- Added a comment where the links actually show up and edits actually change things. by TB 2011-05-18 18:47:23

Current status of the War Powers Act by TB May 18, 2011 3:45 pm

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