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Go to a financial class like Dave Ramsey. http://content.thevineyardcommunity.com/Vineyard_Community/Home.html

The church I go to is putting on a class featuring him. I hear he is really good. Might think of checking it out. Got free coffee and cookies too!

"Hi, I'm a red X!!"

My caption..."I'ma ghost ghost ghost ghost."

I remember reading a thing awhile back that said something to the effect of" in XX number of years there will be only one or a couple a races because of inter-racial marriages and births."

If thats true, will we be able to make it before total destruction?

Howdy. Welcome.

I give him a hard time, but he knows I heart him!!

Who?

she's telling you straight from the horse's mouth they spin facts.

now if that just doesn't back up what I was saying about faux news nothing does. I wish it wasn't so easy for them to do but it is. that's also why so many people watch one station and stick with it. they hear what they want to hear from it.

fox is has an agenda. to ruin everything obama does or wants to do. and they play their music to the mases that listen to it. because they don't like obama. but the reason why they don't is because they are too ignorant/scared of him to listen to what he has to say. nothing more. they don't bother to do their own investigating into the subject either. they have a peconcieved notion of what the president and government's role is. and when they start trying to change either for good or bad, they freak out. even if it would help them someday.

I also like to hear from these very people their thoughts on Social Security. because lets face it, you know damn well they will cash those checks and live off the government too. but remember, they won't consider themselves a socialist.

You hate Fox because they spin it for their agenda. But yet every other station does the same thing?

Woo hoo. Loved the first one, been waiting for ever for the second one, hope they don't ruin it like so many sequels do.

HUSKEY family sign is in the background. Her last name fits perfect.

Looks like bed sores all over her to me.

You actually noticed the sign in the background Nick?

ok, i watched it all waiting for boob......fml.

Really?

What you see as "enlighten" others see as spreading fear.

I was just saying, debating policy or a stance on something, if done correctly will "enlighten" those who are engaged in it. If by saying "enlightened" people hear "spreading fear", then maybe they should open their minds up. Look, I don't care if this thread reaches 2 billion pages. JRMiii and Todd will probably still disagree. But if they each take one thing from the other side, then it is not a waste. This is America. A melting pot. There are as many view here as there stars in the sky. But all people need to try to at least come together in a civilized manner and discuss things. If we all do stuff like we always have, like I said earlier, we would still have slaves. And that doesn't mean going off the deep end is good either.

The key to the Universe is Knowledge.

Hope you can work it out. People on here seem to have some good advice but what works for one person my not work for everyone, keep that in mind. And you might want to forget about going to Cedar Point. It isn't a necessity. GL.

id go with ya bambi mainly cuz you crack me up and I wanna find you a girl but this weekend is the races at mid ohio and next sat is out because Ive commited to a cookout party on sun that Im skeerd for my well being if I miss "she would hurt me" and if iz at CP till midnite id miss it fo sure and the weekend after that we taken the quads outta town

I gotta ask, where'd the name Bambi come from?

Indeed. Excellent point. Which is why we should absolutely go a different direction.

The only thing I can assume, based on the amount of unsigned negative rep, is that I touched a nerve with some people on here LOL but that is perfectly fine. In my line of work it happens all the time, and it don't mean a thing, except people are scared shitless, uncomfortable and insecure. But I love people anyway! MUAH!!

Out of curiousity, how much neg rep? how much pos rep?

Can't we all just get along? Group hug at bike night!!!

I didn't say that either. He is, after all, black as the night that covers me. I don't care that he's halfsies... if he showed up on your doorstep to pick up your sister, he is surely black at that moment.

So now you assume I wouldn't want a black man to date my sister.

... And how do you know that's not how I talk..?

Because if it were the way you talked(typed) you would do it through out your entire post, not just when referring to GWB.

Like I said earlier, it's not nice to assume. Just because so and so did something doesn't mean it's right to do it again. If that were the case, we would still have slavery.

whoops... forgot to answer that part, sorry

everything you can think of. anything as harmless as a festival coverage to as important as election stories.

I don't get to do it myself much anymore, but I have a staff of reporters who know how to "write to order."

For example, sometimes we run the same story in different editions of the paper (nowadays... we run different editions based on the internet user's ZIP code or other demographics we can gather). The urban center of town will get something slightly different than the wealthy suburbs. Same facts, just rearranged to appeal to that demographic. Or sometimes we will withhold stories for one area of town, that we will provide full blown in another. It's bidniss as usual.

It's not always executed perfectly, either. sometimes the wrong version will run in the wrong area and we will get pounded with negative feedback from readers/viewers. Ever notice how local TV news stories are really short? like 20-30 seconds per topic? it's because it's a general broadcast to all audiences. The less we say, the less chance we have of offending one segment or another.

Oh so you spin the facts instead of reporting the facts. Got it.

Punkin, a fundamental principle of public speaking is using cues, and yes, a teleprompter. It's standard procedure for important addresses to be be written and transcribed onto a teleprompter. That's just about everyone on TV, newscasters, sportscasters, and absolutely politicians.

Most federal level politicians have speech writers on staff. Obama and Bush included. Addresses as a rule are prewritten, heavily edited by a giant staff of experts on whatever you can think of, then go through another layer of approvals before the POTUS even sees it.

The lovable but laughable difference bw W and Obama is that without speechwriters, W can't speak his way out of a paper bag. Bless his little heart. And Barack Obama... well.. he is an attorney. He has had plenty of education and experience on public speaking and debate. which is why he holds his own with or without cues.

I won't sit here and say that NO ONE voted for the president because of his color, because we both know that's bullshit. My dad (he has some REAL old skool ideas.. he grew up during a difficult time to be black) will be the first one to tell you why he voted for Obama. But hell, he also voted for Jesse Jackson.

But in return, I don't want you to try to tell me that PLENTY of people voted against him because he black, too. deal?

I know people voted against him cuz he was black, no doubt about it. So because people voted against him cuz of his color its okay to vote for him for the same reason?

But because Bush couldn't speak very well means he was a bumbling idiot? And you will sit there and make fun of the way he talks (which is ok) but it's not ok for someone to make a comment about Obama being black? Yeah a person who stumble's on their words is not capable of being a president. How many times did you here Obama say "uhh...ummm...uhh...umm...uhh...umm" Thats no different.

I dunno, punkins. I guess I'm just Ray Charles blind to why it's unconstitutional for the POTUS to appoint people to appointable jobs as he sees fit.

It was perfectly fine for W, who made plenty of appointments. He managed to make 2 appointments to federal courts back in... '03 or '04 I think, by bypassing the Senate altogther, even though the constitution says Senate approval is required for federal courts. And what about the appointments he slid in in January of 09? Mostly his friends and rich guys (and a NASCAR driver LOL) who made big donations? And of course he appointed Brownie as the Czar of FEMA... and I suppose you're going to say he did a GREAT job lolol

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I dunno, punkins. I guess I'm just Ray Charles blind to why it's unconstitutional for the POTUS to appoint people to appointable jobs as he sees fit.

It was perfectly fine for W, who made plenty of appointments. He managed to make 2 appointments to federal courts back in... '03 or '04 I think, by bypassing the Senate altogther, even though the constitution says Senate approval is required for federal courts. And what about the appointments he slid in in January of 09? Mostly his friends and rich guys (and a NASCAR driver LOL) who made big donations? And of course he appointed Brownie as the Czar of FEMA... and I suppose you're going to say he did a GREAT job lolol

It was Director Brown, not Czar Brown.

I can't speak for everyone (HAH!) but I imagine he's qualified because he is a Harvard law graduate Magna Cum Laude (best possible level of acheivement), where he also served as President of the Harvard Law Review. He also has a degree in political science and international relations from Columbia University. How about 15-20 years experience in local, state and federal government, community organizing, helping the poor for little/no pay, including teaching people how to stand up for their own rights against powerful interests (like insurance companies and greedy corporations)

Not just 'cuz his daddy was president. and not that his faintcy book learnin' will make no nevermind to y'all.

print and broadcast, mostly. Both of which have splooged over into interactive media aka the Innanets

I asked how it was right to vote for him just because of his color. I never said he was qualified or not, but color is not a qualification so why would people vote for him for that reason alone? And as for W, you are saying you have never stubled over your words? Because he tried not to just use the teleprompter? But Obama uses the teleprompter and gets how far through it before he realizes its not even the right one?

What kind of stories do you "edit" to appeal to a certain audience?

Failthread..............or is it Fearthread?

How is a debate a failthread?

Edit, rephrase:

How is a political debate to enlighten the minds of the voting public a failthread?

I hear Charles Manson is up for that one....