JoeUser Forums[quote who="Daiwa" reply="23" id="2997774"]signaling a swift return to the trench warfare [/quote] Of course, you would prefer the straight reality of class warfare.
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[quote who="kingbee" reply="14" id="2676868"] a 14-point gain since March and at the level that strategists say she needs to be to win in November."[/quote] Damn, another example of voting against your own interest.
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You're right;after all, there were Irish slave owners in the old south.
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In Japan for the armistice I actuallyreceived [e digicons]:'([/e] a Lana Turner pin up pix
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[quote who="Daiwa" reply="10" id="2997266"]There ya go with the Rope-a-Dope again.[/quote] Yeah, I can't be trusted. [e digicons]:cylon:[/e]
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"The lion's share of the undermining comes in the form of the Blue Dogging that I should have anticipated. Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) is wary of "big pieces of legislation." Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) does what she does best: shielding her ultra-profitable oil industry donors from sacrifice. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) beat the drum for austerity." [Huff] How often have I said that the true obstructionists are not those desensitized membe
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Though MSNBC started referencing them, Fox took the bait and are now also bringing up MSNBC's members.
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My very fiest payroll tax was 50 cents in 1941.
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[quote who="CharlesCS" reply="1" id="2997188"] Hmmm[/quote] Oh,my, there's indeed tentativeness in all sectors, including the White House! [e digicons]X|[/e]
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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="5" id="2996729"]#9[/quote] W/O public option there's no universal [quote who="Dr Guy" reply="5" id="2996729"]#7 - You hire reliable people. Sometimes they are in blighted areas. Most of the time the risk is too grea
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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="5" id="2996729"]#2 - Why shorter work weeks? 40 is not onerous. 35 would just mean less pay and fewer benefits. There is no magic to employment. You get paid for what you produce.[/quote] The same question was asked when laboring was72 hours a week.
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Close to croaking. [e digicons]:puke:[/e]
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Austerity, when things must be done, is tax dodging. NH has an economy because sales tax dodging from Massachusets and other neigbors buy there. No different from most of us buying on the Internet to dodge taxes. Of course, in the 50s the southern states mastered the process. [e digicons]:bebi:[/e]
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"The Census Bureau reported that there are now 46.2 million Americans living below the official poverty line—the highest number in the 52 years since that statistic was first measured—and median household income has fallen back to the 1996 level." [NY Times] Yeah, I know most of us mainstreamers are fortunate to have jobs or pensions, some eve
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[e digicons]}:)[/e] I don’t have a problem with atheists — each to his own comfort level — nonetheless, it is ridiculous for one of that inclination to get rattled to the extent that others of belief are denied their comfort. Atheism by definition is free from religion. Theists are free to believe as they see fit; atheists shou
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Curb your enthusiam![e digicons]:frogboy:[/e]
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[quote]Wisconsin recently threw out its collective bargaining agreement. They said they had to in order to balance the budget. The Unions screamed, as did Obama and many democrats. Things got violent with union thugs beating up anyone that would not change with them about Gov Walker. In the end, t
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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="5" id="2996733"] The rich are not a class.[/quote] How true; it is a country club. [e digicons]:zoomba:[/e]
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[quote who="Nitro Cruiser" reply="3" id="2996481"]As for the malls, the last thing I want to see at the mall is a line of sick people waiting in line. It doesn't put people in a shopping mood.[/quote] What are we taliking about here? A LEPROSY COLONY? [quote who="Ni
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[quote who="Nitro Cruiser" reply="6" id="2996486"]The country would be in a bit better shape, instead of leaderless uncertainty.[/quote] Very nice concession. [e digicons]:beer:[/e]
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[quote who="MasonM" reply="7" id="2996502"]After all, the more taxes the companies pay the more jobs they create.[/quote] And the more jobs created means more taxpayers. It's simple math, not unlike social security: take away SS checks each mo
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At one time I went so far as to include the paper boy, but I've mellowed. [e digicons]O:)[/e]
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I'm on pins and needles.
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[quote who="Nitro Cruiser" reply="1" id="2996497"]Urban blight? Are you referring to those bastions of the democrat base? When you ubsidies poverty, you get more of it. But it does seem to garner votes[/quote] Yes, to a degree lowlife, along with profiteering absentee landlords and corrupt
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[quote who="Nitro Cruiser" reply="2" id="2996459"]Nobody should be paying zero in IMO, we are in this together.[/quote] I agree; I've said that many a time. Some good examples, but when at a bar the wealthiest usually picks up the tab--but, hey, not everyone i
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