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Cannibal Cop - Jody - 3/13/2013 4:08:07 AM
- "...is he guilty because he thought it?" I don't think so. - Ainz - 3/29/2013 5:57:03 AM
- Good question but either way - FrankC - 3/14/2013 2:22:32 AM

The furor over Ahmadinejad's compassion - RobVG - 3/13/2013 1:34:25 AM
- Tolerance - SteveS - 3/13/2013 7:55:54 PM

An interesting way to look at the February job numbers - RobVG - 3/10/2013 10:13:46 PM
- The Invisible Workforce - SteveS - 3/12/2013 10:50:20 PM

N.Korea and Basketball Diplomacy - RobVG - 2/28/2013 3:36:38 PM
- Third option sending Rodman could be seen as an attack. - bowser - 2/28/2013 4:27:03 PM
  - lol n/t - RobVG - 3/1/2013 4:14:57 AM

"Earthquake" in N. Korea - RobVG - 2/12/2013 5:38:08 AM
- "miniaturized" means "will fit on a missile." - TB - 2/12/2013 2:21:44 PM
  - I wonder who's the closer target, you or me? n/t - RobVG - 2/13/2013 3:25:43 AM
    - Either way, it'll probably hit Bowser and Buck. lol n/t - RobVG - 2/13/2013 3:26:58 AM
      - In reality, only one country has ever used them. - bowser - 2/13/2013 1:51:36 PM
        
        Yup, and it took two of them. n/t - RobVG - 2/13/2013 3:34:20 PM
        
        They had very little to do with the end, really. - bowser - 2/14/2013 3:05:50 AM
        
        One additional tidbit. - bowser - 2/15/2013 3:47:45 AM

What's driving growth in government spending - TB - 1/22/2013 10:30:43 PM
- It is amazing how you can discover the baby bump over and over and over and still be surprised. - alcaray - 2/10/2013 3:22:36 AM
- Now ask yourself "Why is that happening?" - bowser - 2/9/2013 6:33:38 PM
- Good - BuckGalaxy - 1/23/2013 7:37:08 AM
  - Be careful with "percent of GDP" figures. - TB - 1/23/2013 5:14:58 PM
    - "in a working society" - BuckGalaxy - 1/24/2013 6:05:02 PM
      - Reality. - TB - 1/24/2013 6:42:57 PM
        
        quit playing dumb, or being dumb - BuckGalaxy - 1/26/2013 7:47:01 AM
        
        Dude. This isn't about the revenues. Or GDP growth. - TB - 1/26/2013 6:43:55 PM
        
        What is the disconnect you have here? - BuckGalaxy - 1/27/2013 6:54:58 PM
        
        Not disconnection. - TB - 1/28/2013 5:32:03 PM
        
        Are you seriously suggesting - BuckGalaxy - 1/30/2013 8:03:54 AM
        
        Spending/Revenue comparison - SteveS - 1/24/2013 7:23:50 PM
        
        P.S. - TB - 1/25/2013 3:10:59 AM
        
        I can repost something I put up at the beginning of the month: - TB - 1/25/2013 3:05:02 AM

Mohamed Ali Alive and Well - RobVG - 2/7/2013 4:56:50 AM

Why the U.S. Government Never, Ever Has to Pay Back All Its Debt - BuckGalaxy - 2/6/2013 6:09:48 AM

Ezra Klein reports on bi-partisan commission study on effect of breaching the debt ceiling. - BuckGalaxy - 1/8/2013 4:47:30 PM
- Anyone who watches this video and responds the way TB has below needs a lobotomy. - BuckGalaxy - 1/8/2013 9:25:38 PM
  - Apparently some people have already had one. - TB - 1/8/2013 10:02:55 PM
    - "The debt ceiling will be raised. Nobody has any doubt about that." - BuckGalaxy - 1/9/2013 4:13:17 AM
      - Told you so. - TB - 1/23/2013 8:49:01 PM
        
        I'm glad you were right - BuckGalaxy - 1/24/2013 6:02:35 PM
      - What happened in 2011 is that the debt ceiling got raised. - TB - 1/9/2013 4:57:18 PM
      - You need to face the facts buddy - BuckGalaxy - 1/9/2013 5:42:07 AM
        
        Right. - TB - 1/9/2013 9:52:06 PM
        
        Honestly, it's tiring reading your endless attempts to steer the conversation away from - BuckGalaxy - 1/10/2013 6:54:51 AM
        
        "Look Look! It's about these graphs and debt debt debt debt. Just don't make me talk about the debt ceiling!" - BuckGalaxy - 1/10/2013 6:42:35 AM
        
        Interesting how you inverted that. - TB - 1/10/2013 3:45:00 PM
- Re: Ezra Klein reports on bi-partisan commission study on effect of breaching the debt ceiling. - TB - 1/8/2013 5:27:29 PM
  - Incidentally... - TB - 1/8/2013 5:36:58 PM
    - Of course the Trillion Dollar coin is insane - BuckGalaxy - 1/8/2013 6:46:13 PM
      - Your head is jammed on the talking points. You're not letting anything else in. - TB - 1/8/2013 7:04:58 PM
        
        furthermore, - BuckGalaxy - 1/8/2013 8:26:22 PM
        
        Listen - BuckGalaxy - 1/8/2013 7:56:11 PM

Time to stop hyperventilating over the deficit - BuckGalaxy - 1/20/2013 7:41:23 PM
- Gop's fault - SteveS - 1/22/2013 9:06:13 PM
- Republicans simply posturing on the deficit, don't really care. - bowser - 1/22/2013 2:58:49 PM
  - The above was a reply to a TB post which disappeared. - bowser - 1/22/2013 2:59:55 PM
    - I realized what the knee-jerk response would be. - TB - 1/22/2013 4:21:00 PM
      - Lessee. - bowser - 1/22/2013 8:31:00 PM
      - P.S. - TB - 1/22/2013 5:14:16 PM
        
        Bonus chart: - TB - 1/22/2013 6:56:39 PM

Congratulations Barack - RobVG - 1/22/2013 2:31:55 AM
- Refreshing reasonableness and maturity - BuckGalaxy - 1/22/2013 9:26:21 AM
- And congratulations USA. - bowser - 1/22/2013 6:04:53 AM

23 executive actions - RobVG - 1/18/2013 4:17:40 PM
- I don't see the problem with 2 & 16 ?? - FrankC - 1/18/2013 8:33:04 PM
  - Information gathering - TB - 1/18/2013 11:10:05 PM
    - Thanks - RobVG - 1/19/2013 12:55:47 AM
- I don't even know where to start on this list. - TB - 1/18/2013 5:18:28 PM
- "blatant Nazi tactics"? Really? - Robert - 1/18/2013 5:13:46 PM
  - My doctor asked me if I have relatives living in Bolivia. Should I worry? - FrankC - 1/18/2013 8:36:52 PM
  - Re: "blatant Nazi tactics"? Really? - TB - 1/18/2013 5:54:46 PM

Half the facts you know are probably wrong - TB - 1/5/2013 10:01:33 PM
- More stuff everyone knows that isn't true... - TB - 1/18/2013 4:29:01 AM
  - How about all the facts half the people know? - bowser - 1/18/2013 7:38:44 AM
- We could lower the half-life a great deal if people were taught... - alcaray - 1/5/2013 10:42:20 PM

Personal outsourcing - TB - 1/17/2013 5:24:45 PM

Death Star petition garners 34,435 signatures, yet inexplicably denied by White House - Robert - 1/14/2013 1:06:22 AM
- Limit has been raised to 100,000 signatures. - TB - 1/16/2013 6:28:49 PM
- Damn. It'd have been sweet on the back of the Trillion Coin. - podrock - 1/14/2013 6:43:43 AM
  - Perfect! - Robert - 1/14/2013 5:37:40 PM

Engineered crisis - TB - 1/8/2013 6:06:44 PM
- Now that I think about it... - alcaray - 1/11/2013 12:08:05 AM
- unbelievable spin - BuckGalaxy - 1/8/2013 6:49:19 PM
  - I think this stuff is to plead with the public in advance... - alcaray - 1/10/2013 1:16:44 AM
  - The House GOP has been in power only since January of 2011. - TB - 1/8/2013 7:14:43 PM
    - And look what havoc they have caused - BuckGalaxy - 1/10/2013 6:36:21 AM
      - You're down to hysterical gibbering, now. - TB - 1/10/2013 4:15:03 PM
    - Reid's legacy... - SteveS - 1/9/2013 2:48:08 PM
      - You're blaming the downgrade on Reid? - BuckGalaxy - 1/10/2013 6:38:44 AM
        
        The S&P Press release: - TB - 1/10/2013 4:04:37 PM
        
        S&P walked on eggshells to avoid saying "Republicans". - alcaray - 1/11/2013 12:03:56 AM

Population Bomb fizzling out? - TB - 1/10/2013 5:01:59 PM

Circling the fiscal drain - TB - 1/5/2013 4:03:30 PM
- The hostage takers will fail - BuckGalaxy - 1/7/2013 7:00:25 PM
  - Yes, the debt ceiling should be unlimited. - TB - 1/7/2013 7:29:29 PM
    - Wonder what the graph looks like if you add in the cost of the wars under Bush to the Bush years, and subtract them from the Obama years? - alcaray - 1/8/2013 12:57:40 AM
      - Then factor in the surplus Bush inherited. The one which created jobs in hedge funds. - bowser - 1/8/2013 2:10:06 AM
      - Re: Wonder what the graph looks like if you add in the cost of the wars under Bush to the Bush years, and subtract them from the Obama years? - TB - 1/8/2013 2:08:44 AM
        
        I'll even help you out. - TB - 1/8/2013 2:44:18 AM
        
        I'm not used to such capitulation on your part. - alcaray - 1/8/2013 8:15:51 AM
    - And so the way you would deal with this - BuckGalaxy - 1/7/2013 8:51:24 PM
      - Good points n/t - RobVG - 1/8/2013 1:17:25 AM
      - My side isn't running the show any more. - TB - 1/7/2013 9:21:06 PM
        
        Really? So the House has diddly squat to do with it? - Tony - 1/8/2013 9:10:31 PM
        
        Sort of like poking holes in the bottom of the ship then jumping overboard. - bowser - 1/8/2013 2:12:17 AM
        
        What's next? - BuckGalaxy - 1/7/2013 9:54:40 PM
        
        You might want to take a look at those 2011 "budget cuts." - TB - 1/7/2013 10:44:35 PM
        
        Again, - BuckGalaxy - 1/7/2013 10:48:12 PM
- Related: - TB - 1/5/2013 4:21:26 PM

Kulluk successfully floated from rocky coastline. - RobVG - 1/8/2013 2:28:18 AM
- Good news - BuckGalaxy - 1/8/2013 4:23:14 AM
- Re: Kulluk successfully floated from rocky coastline. - TB - 1/8/2013 2:31:34 AM

House GOP: Position taking vs policy making - BuckGalaxy - 1/7/2013 10:36:19 PM

It's always something... - TB - 1/3/2013 7:07:55 PM
- Boy, howdy! - bowser - 1/4/2013 6:18:59 AM
- Re: It's always something... - Jody - 1/4/2013 12:44:30 AM
- No sweat for Tech 1, he has a basement full of 200 watt incandescent's on hand. :) - FrankC - 1/3/2013 9:22:43 PM
  - That's true. - SDAI-Tech - 1/6/2013 9:38:00 AM
- There's a market for everything - SteveS - 1/3/2013 8:52:50 PM
  - Re: There's a market for everything - Jody - 1/4/2013 12:44:57 AM

Al Jazeera purchasing Al Gore's Current TV - TB - 1/3/2013 12:39:24 AM
- Lies, Hate, Racism, Revenge, Fomenting Social Outrage... - SDAI-Tech - 1/5/2013 9:10:06 AM
- propaganda - FrankC - 1/3/2013 9:06:21 PM
  - judge for yourself - Robert - 1/3/2013 10:22:38 PM
    - Well, the main point of my post, which I omitted... - FrankC - 1/3/2013 10:58:22 PM
      - Anti-Muslim violence spiralling out of control in America - FrankC - 1/3/2013 11:17:21 PM
        
        The title is way over the top - Robert - 1/4/2013 7:27:53 PM
- I hope it's shown - Tony - 1/3/2013 4:26:34 PM
  - Cable versus online - Robert - 1/3/2013 7:23:43 PM
    - Nuance... - TB - 1/3/2013 7:49:17 PM
      - Oil money - RobVG - 1/4/2013 12:21:12 AM
      - That's better - Robert - 1/3/2013 10:08:43 PM
        
        I assumed what Gore did was self-explanatory. - TB - 1/3/2013 10:34:37 PM
- Heh. - TB - 1/3/2013 5:31:20 AM
  - Re: Heh. - Jody - 1/3/2013 7:30:36 PM

Will no one rid us of this troublesome Constitution? - TB - 12/31/2012 10:53:31 PM
- Well, like he says, ignoring the Constitution is not a new idea. - FrankC - 1/1/2013 12:35:12 AM
  - It's only bad if someone does it NOW - Tony - 1/2/2013 5:11:20 PM
    - With a different president... - TB - 1/2/2013 6:06:30 PM
      - I wasn't talking about "them" - Tony - 1/3/2013 4:27:51 PM
      - The ACLU is not a tiny leftist cadre. - MaryAnne - 1/2/2013 6:47:59 PM
        
        It might as well be if the rest of the country isn't paying any attention to it. - TB - 1/2/2013 7:09:03 PM
  - Well, I don't consider that a "plus." - TB - 1/1/2013 12:48:07 AM
    - You've never read a history of the GWB administration. - bowser - 1/3/2013 5:52:15 PM

This is CNN - TB - 1/1/2013 6:40:03 PM
- Re: This is CNN - Jody - 1/2/2013 5:13:05 AM
- Gee, I only saw the murder and smoking and drinking... - MaryAnne - 1/1/2013 9:03:33 PM
  - CNN also showed the "drag queen shoe drop" at Key West. - TB - 1/1/2013 11:22:49 PM
    - we crossed Sushi posts. And my morality statement. - alcaray - 1/2/2013 12:05:03 AM
      - If, as you say, the performance was agreed upon... - MaryAnne - 1/2/2013 1:34:59 AM
        
        These aren't movie stars, TV comedians, or rock musicians. - TB - 1/2/2013 2:35:13 AM
        
        New Year's Eve coverage isn't really news. - MaryAnne - 1/2/2013 2:59:34 AM
        
        Oops. My mistake. - TB - 1/2/2013 3:45:52 AM
        
        Now this thread makes sense! - Tony - 1/3/2013 4:25:16 PM
  - Gender reversal - RobVG - 1/1/2013 10:13:18 PM
    - Yea but nobody dropped tuna at midnight. - alcaray - 1/1/2013 11:25:42 PM
- I watch them every year. - alcaray - 1/1/2013 7:56:34 PM

You're a senator. You have three minutes. - TB - 1/2/2013 11:37:32 PM
- The real 'Low Information Voters' - SteveS - 1/3/2013 1:55:42 PM

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