Comments on: DEBATE

By: vea

vea — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:15:36 +0000

haha…so true..one of the reasons why i hate it..

By: Lark

Lark — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:58:46 +0000

Kind of like tribal council on Survivor.

By: Tuure Koivikko

Tuure Koivikko — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:22:49 +0000

LOL.

True.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:16:57 +0000

A paycheck is NOT a redistribution of wealth. It is payment for services rendered. Taxes are a redistribution, because it takes part of payment for services rendered and shuttles it to someone or something that hasn’t done those services. And the next president, if he is a democrat, WILL be able to redistribute the wealth by raising taxes even more because he will have the backing of congress. There is nothing in te Constitution about taxes. There is about guns, therefore they can’t take them away.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:04:20 +0000

Except that the president cant DO that. He cant just take your
money away and give it to others. No more so than he can just
take your guns away. And when you think about it… your paycheck
is a redistribution of wealth. Taxes are the same thing. Anytime
money changes hands is a redistribution. The thing is the
Republicans are using their favorite weapon, “fear” to try and
keep folks in line by using outrageous claims that cant LEGALLY
be done.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:56:08 +0000

Wow… Pundit Kitchen decided my post was done… odd..
As I was saying they’re the result of condescending presumptuous, classists
that cant spell corporations.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:55:20 +0000

No all the problems of the world are the result of condescending, presumptuous

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:48:11 +0000

So… which one’s the imaginary Schizo personality… and which one is
the insomniac?

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:47:22 +0000

I have showers here where I work.. but they’re dirtier than how I feel right now.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:45:53 +0000

*Three Amigos Salute*

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:44:01 +0000

“You know this one time I was with a woman who was into auto-
erotic asphyxiation, where you use safe words. So we’re going at
it and Im choking her and she starts to say ‘*inaudible choking
noise*’ and I say ‘…. No… that’s not the word.’”

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:02:58 +0000

*blinks* Ooooh ya, that’s right. He was in tight pants.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:00:59 +0000

I was fond of unlocking Shiva in the third one and using him to pwn the game.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:00:04 +0000

And extra fiber.

By: GomerPhyls

GomerPhyls — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:40:40 +0000

The only problem with that is McCain said he wouldn’t apply a litmus test and then went on to completely contradict himself by saying he wouldn’t choose anyone that believed in Roe v Wade. Doesn’t that qualify as a litmus test right there?

By: froofrou

froofrou — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:21:21 +0000

He, uh, kind of said exactly that the other day. It’s not a catchphrase as much as a Freudian Slip, I think

By: Guinny

Guinny — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:39:05 +0000

Hopefully the recent happenings have taught them a lesson… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Sorry, couldn’t keep a straight face.

By: KillerRabbit

KillerRabbit — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:32:31 +0000

“IT”S THE SPENDING !!!!”
No matter how much money the government takes from us, they always manage to spend more.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:03:21 +0000

Only if it’s the Keven Costner version. That movie is teh awesome. Alan Rickman in tight pants… *sigh*

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:59:02 +0000

Or maybe it was the, “Benedict Arnold was a war hero too” t-shirt that I’ve also seen on this site.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:57:49 +0000

Me too! Him and the chick, the other two were lame.

By: Guinny

Guinny — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:31:52 +0000

That is a poorly chosen catchphrase, I would agree with that. But it’s absurd to think that Obama is planning to rob rich people of their money to give it to the poor so everybody is equally wealthy. I wouldn’t support him if that were the case, being the owner of a business that makes well over $250.000 a year.

I don’t see anything wrong with us richies paying higher taxes if that’s what it takes to get our country out of its slump, though.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:06:11 +0000

You’re right, but Obama’s statement about redistributing wealth is exactly how that works.

By: Guinny

Guinny — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:07:38 +0000

You do know that that’s not how taxes work, right?

By: Kevin T.

Kevin T. — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:07:10 +0000

Yeeees. It’s all big business’ fault. All the problems of the world are the result of huge evil corperations.

You’re poor and an Art major, aren’t you?

By: Kevin T.

Kevin T. — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:02:48 +0000

And of course, all rich people are evil, so they can be taxed until they’re poor again.

Yay! Robin hood!

By: Kevin T.

Kevin T. — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:01:07 +0000

More Obama than McCain, I think.

After all, when asked whether they’d choose Supreme Justices based on their ideology, McCain said that he wouldn’t and would choose them based on merit, whereas Obama went into a long winded tirade about abortion, completely ignoring the question.

Still, I think McCain did it too a few times. :-/

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:35:39 +0000

Or the 2000 vote. Same thing.

By: James

James — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:40:10 +0000

EPIC neutral?

By: James

James — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:33:28 +0000

With chainsaw…

By: signe

signe — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:00:39 +0000

this reminds me of some people i know

By: froofrou

froofrou — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:28:08 +0000

Seth? Did you take a happy pill today? *checks forehead* Hmmmm…..no fever. Why are you suddenly on my side?

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:43:23 +0000

I read that Joe is a registered republican. The rest is true.

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:41:12 +0000

McCain did mention a t-shirt he found offensive. I immediately thought that it must have been that one.

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:09:27 +0000

Joe is not a plumber. Joe is not registered to vote. Joe makes less than $250,000/year, so his taxes will go down. Not only is Joe a Republican media whore, he is an idiot. Not only is he an idiot, the people who decided McCain should use him, without vetting him (again with the no vetting!), are complete and utter morons. Finally, even if he were a real plumber, registered to vote, and made over $250,000/year, nobody gives a damn. It’s the economy, stupid. Bad economy trumps everything, even taxes.

By: KillerRabbit

KillerRabbit — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:04:21 +0000

Joe pointed out that the Emporer has no clothes….and wants to tax you blind.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:35:29 +0000

I can imagine, she isn’t in charge of anything in that campaign.

By: i_tego_arcana_dei

i_tego_arcana_dei — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:26:29 +0000

Bill Mahr called her an “Evangelist Dominatrix” on Real Time the other night……

I effing LOLed

By: lol

lol — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:04:33 +0000

Joe the Plumber is a GOP plant.

By: lol

lol — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:03:51 +0000

Oh ya, that too. O_O

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:51:50 +0000

Caffeine is a laxative…

By: lol

lol — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:37:30 +0000

Espresso has a higher caffeine to volume ratio.

By: lol

lol — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:36:51 +0000

Streets of Rage! I always played that kid with skates in the second one.

By: Lily

Lily — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:28:11 +0000

The election of 1876. Hayes vs. Tilden. Tilden won the popular vote, Hayes won the electoral vote.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:11:40 +0000

The ACORN thing has been discussed ad nauseum. So I have a simple analogy for you.
I transport money for the mob. Every suitcase of money I get has some real money and some counterfeit. You see me and ask me what is in the suitcase and I tell you money. You pull a gun and tell me to give you the money or I die. So I hand you the suitcase and say, “The stacks with yellow rubber bands are counterfeit. The purple rubber bands are real money.” But you go ahead and use the counterfeit money anyway. Even though you know it is fake. That is not my fault.

So. To make it even simpler for you. I would be ACORN in this case, and you would be the government. ACORN flags all the suspicious and false voter registrations (yellow rubber bands around the fake money), that they are required by law to turn in (“hand over the money or you die” part). If the city clerk’s office registers the ones that have been flagged (you using the counterfeit money) it is not ACORN’s fault because they did everything in their power to stop it.
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An elector campaigned and voted for Mickey Mouse one election. I’ll have to get back to you on the specific election, but I learned about it in my history book in high school.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:14:44 +0000

Ah, I heard of it. Just never played it. I enjoyed Streets of Rage myself.

By: Thor

Thor — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:12:25 +0000

How about the candidates as the Little Rascals ?

By: n8

n8 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:10:54 +0000

They’re called “faithless electors.” Rare, but it does happen, even as recently as the 2004 election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

By: n8

n8 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:09:12 +0000

Double Dragon was THE fight-game franchise, at least until Final Fight and Street Fighter 2 came along. Good times…

By: cobrajoe

cobrajoe — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:59:58 +0000

“The ol’ boy system” eh?
What about ACORN and their fraudulent voter registrations?
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Also, when has an elector voted against what the state voted?
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The electoral college does not bias itself towards one candidate or the other, but this system means that you can lose the popular vote and still win the election.

Golf analogy: Golf is usually played that the lowest score wins the game. But, if you played so that the lowest score wins the hole, then you tallied up the number of holes you won, you can win the game without having the lowest score.