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Conservatives on verge of giving up a huge issue. - bowser - 1/22/2012 11:26:52 PM
- So, exactly when did Democrats start finding "family values" to be a virtue, and infidelity to be a flaw in a politician? - TB - 1/22/2012 11:35:12 PM
  - Re: So, exactly when did Democrats start finding "family values" to be a virtue, and infidelity to be a flaw in a politician? - bowser - 1/23/2012 6:22:13 AM
  - Re: So, exactly when did Democrats start finding "family values" to be a virtue, and infidelity to be a flaw in a politician? - RobVG - 1/23/2012 2:33:33 AM
    - Sorry, Rob. - TB - 1/23/2012 4:24:59 PM
      - Re: Sorry, Rob. - bowser - 1/23/2012 7:03:13 PM

Wow! Go Newt!!! - alcaray - 1/22/2012 12:51:21 AM
- Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - bowser - 1/22/2012 8:15:16 AM
- Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - RobVG - 1/22/2012 4:22:06 AM
- Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - Robert - 1/22/2012 1:12:03 AM
  - Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - alcaray - 1/22/2012 1:26:12 AM
    - That wasn't the good kind of maniacal. - Robert - 1/22/2012 4:41:38 AM
      - Yeah, without Newt the election would have been all sweetness and light with the Obama Chicago gang. Like 2008. - TB - 1/22/2012 5:20:53 AM
        
        non-sequiters are a good sign. - Robert - 1/22/2012 7:29:09 PM
        
        That was about information. - TB - 1/22/2012 8:13:35 PM
        
        Re: That was about information. - alcaray - 1/22/2012 9:16:51 PM
        
        Re: Yeah, without Newt the election would have been all sweetness and light with the Obama Chicago gang. Like 2008. - alcaray - 1/22/2012 5:48:24 AM
    - Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - Jody - 1/22/2012 1:57:13 AM
      - Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - alcaray - 1/22/2012 3:14:35 AM
        
        Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - Jody - 1/22/2012 3:36:51 AM
        
        Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - alcaray - 1/22/2012 4:30:16 AM
        
        Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - TB - 1/22/2012 3:57:20 AM
        
        Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - alcaray - 1/22/2012 4:32:02 AM
        
        Re: Wow! Go Newt!!! - alcaray - 1/22/2012 4:33:38 AM

Giffords to resign from Congress - TB - 1/22/2012 8:25:08 PM

Pro Wrestling Update - ER - 1/21/2012 6:04:59 PM
- Re: Pro Wrestling Update - TB - 1/21/2012 6:18:58 PM
  - Re: Pro Wrestling Update - ER - 1/21/2012 6:24:11 PM
    - Re: Pro Wrestling Update - bowser - 1/21/2012 11:45:20 PM
      - Re: Pro Wrestling Update - Robert - 1/22/2012 1:11:02 AM

Solar energy in Germany - TB - 1/19/2012 5:12:17 PM
- Re: Solar energy in Germany - alcaray - 1/19/2012 11:33:50 PM
- Re: Solar energy in Germany - johannes - 1/19/2012 11:16:06 PM
- Re: Solar energy in Germany - bowser - 1/19/2012 9:53:27 PM
  - Re: Solar energy in Germany - ER - 1/19/2012 11:18:56 PM
  - Nobody's passing laws demanding a certain percentage of our power comes from fusion by 2020. - TB - 1/19/2012 11:09:16 PM
    - A good thing to remember: - TB - 1/19/2012 11:10:38 PM
      - Re: A good thing to remember: - bowser - 1/20/2012 2:35:13 AM
        
        Re: A good thing to remember: - TB - 1/20/2012 2:46:01 AM
        
        Re: A good thing to remember: - bowser - 1/20/2012 4:25:58 AM
        
        Surgery, Jet travel, Landing on the moon... - RobVG - 1/20/2012 4:18:45 AM
        
        Re: Surgery, Jet travel, Landing on the moon... - alcaray - 1/21/2012 2:18:55 AM
      - Something else to remember. - ER - 1/20/2012 12:58:13 AM
        
        Absolutely true, and it makes my point for me. - TB - 1/20/2012 1:28:37 AM
        
        Re: Absolutely true, and it makes my point for me. - ER - 1/20/2012 1:49:50 AM
        
        How do you tell which is which? It's usually pretty frigging obvious. - TB - 1/20/2012 2:19:21 AM
        
        Re: How do you tell which is which? It's usually pretty frigging obvious. - ER - 1/20/2012 3:37:54 AM

Gingrich gets good news, bad news - BuckGalaxy - 1/19/2012 8:21:21 PM
- Re: Gingrich gets good news, bad news - TB - 1/19/2012 8:41:32 PM
  - Re: Gingrich gets good news, bad news - alcaray - 1/19/2012 11:39:34 PM
  - Shock and awe. - ER - 1/19/2012 9:32:57 PM
- Re: Gingrich gets good news, bad news - Jody - 1/19/2012 8:32:58 PM
  - Re: Gingrich gets good news, bad news - alcaray - 1/19/2012 11:37:42 PM
  - Re: Gingrich gets good news, bad news - ER - 1/19/2012 9:24:33 PM
    - Re: Gingrich gets good news, bad news - Jody - 1/19/2012 11:56:04 PM
    - Re: Gingrich gets good news, bad news - Jody - 1/19/2012 9:47:47 PM

Obamacare uncertainties explain high unemployment - RobVG - 1/17/2012 5:42:20 PM
- Re: Obamacare uncertainties explain high unemployment - ER - 1/19/2012 7:55:11 PM
- Re: Obamacare uncertainties explain high unemployment - BuckGalaxy - 1/19/2012 6:26:58 PM
- Re: Obamacare uncertainties explain high unemployment - bowser - 1/17/2012 8:25:52 PM
  - Re: Obamacare uncertainties explain high unemployment - RobVG - 1/17/2012 10:31:50 PM
    - Re: Obamacare uncertainties explain high unemployment - bowser - 1/18/2012 1:50:42 AM
      - Re: Obamacare uncertainties explain high unemployment - TB - 1/18/2012 1:55:56 AM
        
        Re: Obamacare uncertainties explain high unemployment - bowser - 1/18/2012 5:35:51 AM
        
        You know less than I thought - RobVG - 1/18/2012 6:56:34 AM
        
        Re: You know less than I thought - bowser - 1/18/2012 7:30:41 AM
        
        Re: You know less than I thought - RobVG - 1/18/2012 8:04:35 AM
        
        Re: You know less than I thought - ER - 1/18/2012 12:23:25 PM
        
        Re: You know less than I thought - TB - 1/18/2012 4:26:45 PM
        
        Re: You know less than I thought - alcaray - 1/19/2012 2:25:50 AM
        
        Re: You know less than I thought - TB - 1/19/2012 4:21:58 AM
        
        Re: You know less than I thought - alcaray - 1/19/2012 8:16:35 AM
        
        When discussing "failure," you might want to re-think the education example. - TB - 1/19/2012 4:23:56 PM
        
        Re: When discussing "failure," you might want to re-think the education example. - alcaray - 1/19/2012 6:12:14 PM
        
        Re: You know less than I thought - bowser - 1/18/2012 6:29:09 PM
        
        A common argument, and wrong. - TB - 1/18/2012 9:23:06 PM
        
        Re: You know less than I thought - ER - 1/18/2012 5:44:07 PM
        
        "...a real choice, the only one that was actually available to me." Maybe you want to reword that? - TB - 1/18/2012 6:24:49 PM
        
        Re: "...a real choice, the only one that was actually available to me." Maybe you want to reword that? - ER - 1/18/2012 6:48:46 PM
        
        The best thing about everything being "luck" is that then nothing is ever your fault. - TB - 1/18/2012 9:30:31 PM
        
        Re: The best thing about everything being "luck" is that then nothing is ever your fault. - ER - 1/18/2012 9:50:21 PM
- That's just part of it. - TB - 1/17/2012 7:10:01 PM

The Reasonable Profits Board - TB - 1/19/2012 7:29:23 PM

Topo Giglio - ER - 1/19/2012 11:32:05 AM
- Re: Topo Giglio - TB - 1/19/2012 3:58:21 PM
  - Re: Topo Giglio - ER - 1/19/2012 5:06:09 PM
    - Re: Topo Giglio - TB - 1/19/2012 5:23:47 PM
    - Re: Topo Giglio - ER - 1/19/2012 5:22:55 PM
      - Re: Topo Giglio - bowser - 1/19/2012 5:44:10 PM
- Re: Topo Giglio - Jody - 1/19/2012 1:32:05 PM
  - Re: Topo Giglio - ER - 1/19/2012 2:40:39 PM
    - Re: Topo Giglio - Jody - 1/19/2012 3:41:12 PM

Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - BuckGalaxy - 1/12/2012 11:56:30 PM
- Re: Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - bowser - 1/13/2012 2:29:57 AM
- The Bain Bomb fizzles - TB - 1/13/2012 1:54:10 AM
  - Re: The Bain Bomb fizzles - BuckGalaxy - 1/13/2012 5:40:40 PM
    - Re: The Bain Bomb fizzles - ER - 1/13/2012 6:00:17 PM
    - The point is that the "information" is false. - TB - 1/13/2012 5:51:43 PM
      - Re: The point is that the "information" is false. - BuckGalaxy - 1/13/2012 8:08:33 PM
        
        Re: The point is that the "information" is false. - BuckGalaxy - 1/14/2012 6:17:13 AM
      - Re: The point is that the "information" is false. - ER - 1/13/2012 6:53:06 PM
        
        I have no information other than idle speculation. - TB - 1/14/2012 5:37:02 PM
        
        Re: I have no information other than idle speculation. - ER - 1/14/2012 8:04:24 PM
        
        "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - TB - 1/14/2012 11:19:06 PM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - alcaray - 1/18/2012 2:48:17 AM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - BuckGalaxy - 1/18/2012 4:29:34 AM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - TB - 1/18/2012 4:40:14 AM
        
        You don't have to be told to believe things that are demonstrably true. - TB - 1/18/2012 4:28:08 AM
        
        Re: You don't have to be told to believe things that are demonstrably true. - alcaray - 1/19/2012 2:32:03 AM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - BuckGalaxy - 1/15/2012 2:29:50 AM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - ER - 1/15/2012 1:17:11 AM
        
        You can keep revising the outside world, but you aren't going to have much luck revising me. - TB - 1/15/2012 1:42:14 AM
        
        Re: You can keep revising the outside world, but you aren't going to have much luck revising me. - ER - 1/15/2012 1:53:03 AM
  - Re: The Bain Bomb fizzles - bowser - 1/13/2012 2:34:46 AM
  - Re: The Bain Bomb fizzles - TB - 1/13/2012 2:01:57 AM
- Re: Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - ER - 1/13/2012 12:45:53 AM
  - Re: Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - TB - 1/13/2012 2:22:35 AM
    - Re: Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - ER - 1/13/2012 2:26:51 AM

"'Corruption on grand scale' in insider trading case" - bowser - 1/18/2012 11:18:52 PM

The "Establishment" predictably escalates against the Occupiers. - bowser - 1/18/2012 6:01:29 AM
- The "occupiers" stopped being useful to the Democrats, so basically they're pretending they never heard of it. - TB - 1/18/2012 5:10:45 PM

Economic warfare - TB - 1/17/2012 11:41:09 PM
- Re: Economic warfare - bowser - 1/18/2012 12:52:41 AM
- Re: Economic warfare - ER - 1/18/2012 12:38:05 AM
  - For what its worth... - ER - 1/18/2012 1:13:36 AM
  - Re: the "call for greater financial regulation." - TB - 1/18/2012 1:10:33 AM
    - Re: the "call for greater financial regulation." - ER - 1/18/2012 1:19:21 AM
      - Re: the "call for greater financial regulation." - TB - 1/18/2012 1:33:36 AM
        
        Oops. Sorry. - TB - 1/18/2012 1:39:56 AM

ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: " the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for President put forth by either party in the 2012 election year." (n/t) (n/t) - Jody - 1/17/2012 4:41:08 AM
- Re: ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: " the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for President put forth by either party in the 2012 election year." (n/t) - Tony - 1/17/2012 7:18:12 PM
  - Damn, I thought we had given you the slip. :) - FrankC - 1/18/2012 12:37:48 AM
  - Re: ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: " the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for President put forth by either party in the 2012 election year." (n/t) - TB - 1/17/2012 7:27:05 PM

Iran to return a drone - TB - 1/17/2012 7:04:15 PM
- Re: Iran to return a drone - VelociraptorBlade - 1/17/2012 7:58:08 PM

Why Romney will lose to Obama - BuckGalaxy - 1/15/2012 2:56:54 AM
- Interesting. - TB - 1/15/2012 5:25:36 AM
  - Re: Interesting. - alcaray - 1/17/2012 3:05:40 AM
    - Re: Interesting. - bowser - 1/17/2012 4:25:07 AM
  - "Why Gingrich Tanked" - RobVG - 1/15/2012 6:10:27 PM
    - Re: "Why Gingrich Tanked" - TB - 1/15/2012 10:31:36 PM
  - Re: Interesting. - ER - 1/15/2012 12:36:38 PM
    - Re: Interesting. - TB - 1/15/2012 5:23:21 PM
      - Resounding Conservative victories? - ER - 1/15/2012 5:55:56 PM
        
        When I write, I use precision. "Resounding" does not mean "recounts in Florida for a month." - TB - 1/15/2012 9:46:01 PM
        
        Re: When I write, I use precision. "Resounding" does not mean "recounts in Florida for a month." - alcaray - 1/17/2012 3:10:31 AM
        
        Before you go any further, you might want to review Reagan's 1980 campaign and what he said. - TB - 1/17/2012 3:23:18 AM
        
        Re: Before you go any further, you might want to review Reagan's 1980 campaign and what he said. - alcaray - 1/17/2012 4:18:16 AM
        
        "Even Reagan Wasn’t a Reagan Republican" - RobVG - 1/15/2012 6:34:11 PM
        
        There's been a lot of that "reinventing Reagan" stuff going around from liberal sources. - TB - 1/15/2012 10:03:08 PM
        
        Re: There's been a lot of that "reinventing Reagan" stuff going around from liberal sources. - bowser - 1/16/2012 12:05:22 AM
        
        Re: "Even Reagan Wasn’t a Reagan Republican" - ER - 1/15/2012 7:00:52 PM
  - Re: Interesting. - bowser - 1/15/2012 7:33:17 AM
  - Re: Interesting. - BuckGalaxy - 1/15/2012 7:14:12 AM
- Re: Why Romney will lose to Obama - ER - 1/15/2012 3:35:25 AM
- Re: Why Romney will lose to Obama - FrankC - 1/15/2012 3:13:41 AM

A radar-assisted collision - ER - 1/16/2012 2:42:17 PM
- Not only did the ship hit rocks, it tried to eat one: - podrock - 1/16/2012 6:47:56 PM
  - Re: Not only did the ship hit rocks, it tried to eat one: - TB - 1/16/2012 7:07:44 PM
    - Re: Not only did the ship hit rocks, it tried to eat one: - podrock - 1/16/2012 8:22:21 PM
      - Re: Not only did the ship hit rocks, it tried to eat one: - ER - 1/16/2012 8:52:12 PM
        
        Re: Not only did the ship hit rocks, it tried to eat one: - podrock - 1/16/2012 9:15:09 PM
        
        Re: Not only did the ship hit rocks, it tried to eat one: - podrock - 1/16/2012 9:21:42 PM
        
        Re: Not only did the ship hit rocks, it tried to eat one: - bowser - 1/17/2012 3:24:15 AM
        
        Wow. - TB - 1/16/2012 11:19:15 PM
        
        Re: Wow. - podrock - 1/17/2012 2:38:40 AM
        
        I thought it turned around to try to get to the port. - TB - 1/17/2012 2:46:01 AM
      - Re: Not only did the ship hit rocks, it tried to eat one: - TB - 1/16/2012 8:30:56 PM
- I think your analysis is probably pretty accurate. - TB - 1/16/2012 4:40:40 PM
  - Re: I think your analysis is probably pretty accurate. - ER - 1/16/2012 6:43:04 PM

Pravda update - TB - 1/16/2012 3:12:42 AM
- Re: Pravda update - ER - 1/16/2012 1:14:06 PM
  - No, it actually doesn't. - TB - 1/16/2012 4:37:06 PM
    - Re: No, it actually doesn't. - alcaray - 1/17/2012 3:02:00 AM
      - Re: No, it actually doesn't. - TB - 1/17/2012 3:06:32 AM
      - Re: No, it actually doesn't. - ER - 1/17/2012 3:04:24 AM
        
        Re: No, it actually doesn't. - podrock - 1/17/2012 3:18:02 AM
    - Re: No, it actually doesn't. - ER - 1/16/2012 6:45:06 PM
- Re: Pravda update - bowser - 1/16/2012 5:21:55 AM
- Re: Pravda update - TB - 1/16/2012 3:13:30 AM
  - Re: Pravda update - ER - 1/16/2012 3:03:32 PM
    - Re: Pravda update - TB - 1/16/2012 4:42:30 PM
      - Re: Pravda update - ER - 1/16/2012 6:43:57 PM

Cruise ship runs aground, tips over - TB - 1/14/2012 7:32:52 PM
- Re: Cruise ship runs aground, tips over - ER - 1/14/2012 8:31:35 PM
  - I don't know how much inherent stability a cruise ship has. - TB - 1/15/2012 12:15:56 AM
    - Re: I don't know how much inherent stability a cruise ship has. - ER - 1/15/2012 12:59:49 AM

"Town, cast as Romney's victim, says, 'Huh?'" - TB - 1/15/2012 12:01:51 AM

Ideological groups in the U.S. - TB - 1/13/2012 2:38:53 AM
- Re: Ideological groups in the U.S. - BuckGalaxy - 1/13/2012 8:15:08 PM
  - That, like many other things I'm seeing here, is not true. - TB - 1/13/2012 8:44:15 PM
    - Re: That, like many other things I'm seeing here, is not true. - bowser - 1/14/2012 6:06:22 AM
      - Read the sentence again. - TB - 1/14/2012 5:44:15 PM
    - Re: That, like many other things I'm seeing here, is not true. - bowser - 1/14/2012 6:02:40 AM
      - Doesn't matter. - TB - 1/14/2012 5:47:25 PM
- Re: Ideological groups in the U.S. - bowser - 1/13/2012 4:06:19 AM
  - The President is a Democrat because the last Presidential election was in 2008. - TB - 1/13/2012 4:40:09 AM
    - Re: The President is a Democrat because the last Presidential election was in 2008. - bowser - 1/13/2012 6:15:30 AM

Nine European nations get their credit ratings cut - TB - 1/13/2012 10:47:20 PM
- Re: Nine European nations get their credit ratings cut - bowser - 1/14/2012 1:45:30 AM

Setting up for war. - ER - 1/12/2012 2:50:47 PM
- Re: Setting up for war. - bowser - 1/12/2012 5:32:32 PM
  - Re: Setting up for war. - ER - 1/12/2012 11:01:02 PM
    - Re: Setting up for war. - bowser - 1/13/2012 6:40:06 AM

Golden showers - ER - 1/12/2012 4:48:39 PM
- Re: Golden showers - FrankC - 1/12/2012 9:45:18 PM
  - Re: Golden showers - ER - 1/12/2012 10:19:13 PM
    - Re: Golden showers - FrankC - 1/12/2012 11:07:24 PM
- Re: Golden showers - bowser - 1/12/2012 5:54:04 PM

This is probably the first time I have ever agreed with Sarah Palin - BuckGalaxy - 1/12/2012 6:15:45 PM

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