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Wait, so are we supposed to have regulations on stuff and a checks and balances type system, or an unmitigated free market economy?

I love the post office example, especially when people don't understand it.

Or... OR... you could built that helicopter you were talking about and invert the blades so it can hover upside down exactly 2" off the ground. Mowing time cut drastically.

How can anyone justify stealing a business from one group of investors and reselling it to another group is beyond me.

Ask Romney -- that's what he does.

3.5 acres... mowing sucks.

This one's tougher. The industry was not in danger; two large companies were. It's not the case anymore that the "American" auto industry means Ford, GM and Chrysler. Quite a few other companies, large and small, with interests here were doing relatively well (Ford, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Kia, Hyundai, BMW and Mercedes Benz).

As tough as it would have been to watch them fail, they should have. They would have filed, and been reborn under a new name or bought out. Again, tough, but the government should have stayed out of it.

I'll leave your other two contentions alone for now, but I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark that you don't work in the auto industry and aren't really aware of all the interconnections, joint ventures, and the global supply base ramifications if they had just "let them fail". Besides the auto industry actually makes tangible things using manufacturing know-how, unlike the financial bailout that was tenfold what the auto bailout was and they don't make anything tangible.

liberal bias, it's fatal

Your own words... I built that.

Wow, disturbing thought... luckily I haven't had the displeasure of seeing that yet. You know, its probably not "normal" for you to be having theses fantasies about Howard.

Since when has anything I've ever done been "normal"? Send my kisses to Howard.

What does she do when Howard's wearing your underwear and sings the "I feel pretty" song?

It's not really the same battle... the R's in Wisconsin wanted to change the current law to, without going into the intricacies, neuter the unions power.

Rahm just wants the teachers to go back to work because (right from the article):

the strike is illegal because "it is over issues that are deemed by state law to be non-strikable, and it endangers the health and safety of our children."

meaning he feels they aren't compliant with pre-existing laws on the book.

So it's not an apples-to-apples comparison on your commentary / opinion about R's vs. D's...

Regardless, it's an issue that needs addressing and I don't think either side is going to be pleased with the eventual outcome of the Chicago schools situation. I'd bet it'd get fixed a lot sooner if the mayor sent his kids to the public schools, but because their are private options available, he really doesn't have a true "dog" in the fight, other than his reelection bid.

Progressive (more to the point, Homesite through Progressive) raised my homeowners from 520/yr to 710/yr, AND hiked my deductibles for wind/hail and other acts of nature from $1000 to $2500, on top of that, Progressive proper stagnated my car insurance after my renewal. I kicked them both out and went to Nationwide. Homeowners is 10 bucks less pre-rate hike, and car insurance is down by about 150/6mo.

Near same situation. Cancelled and went with Allstate who then proceeded to quote me a super cheap rate after I specifically said I wasn't moving my car insurance over yet (honeymoon trial period)... then my escrow paid out to Allstate almost $160 extra dollars over my quote to which I was told that "Well, you need to move your auto over and we'll reimburse you to what the original quote was..." ( - which is why I do everything in writing and save the documentation)

Dropped Allstate and requoted with Progressive... and basically got my original rate back. I didn't like going back to them, but I don't think Homesite is the underwriting company anymore, it's IDS Property Casualty Insurance Company.

Yes, a non-liberal being employed at a university is quite worrisome...

Nothing to do with him being liberal or conservative. Everything to do with holding a belief that is contrary to observable fact and evidence. Though it happens more often than not that it's the neo-conservatives that are on the wrong side of facts.

Kind of like how 2+2 will never be 5 no matter how hard you believe it to be.

You may be correct. I mistook Montgomery for a board member.. therefore I withdraw the majority of the snark from my prior post.

Though it is a little scary that he works at a university and is still insistent about being a birther.

They can do anything they want I guess, but the update says this has been withdrawn

https://gawker.com/5943331/kansas-seriously-considering-removing-president-obama-from-november-ballot-over-birth-certificate-concerns

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/kansas-birther-case-obama-joe-montgomery_n_1884936.html

Montgomery told The Huffington Post Friday afternoon that public reaction to the complaint led him to decide against continuing. He declined to say exactly what was said in the calls and emails he received, but indicated that people who knew him both personally and professionally were also contacted about the complaint.

"I didn't file this objection with the desire to involve anyone else. This is me expressing myself on a personal political level," he said. "I would appreciate it if people would not call anyone associated with me, whether a personal or professional association."

Or, how I read it, "Now that I'm in office, I'm representing ME, not the people I'm associated with or elected to represent"

But, in the end, the public won this one. This time.

Well, I could bring it over, but I'm probably one of the most expensive cleaning ladies ever.

Might be worth it for someone on here if you clean pipes too.

Just be happy for the free bumps.

I can do Friday... though she's not gonna like me cancelling date night.

If the tire has to wait...it has to wait. The other stuff is more important.

I might be down for this little easy ride.

Before or after we get together? Would be a good shakedown... assuming we get together at the butt crack of dawn.

Just in case any of ya'll wanna jump off your "Jump to Conclusions" mats...

http://gawker.com/5941945/anonymous-big-fbi-hack-was-a-big-lie

The FBI is probably still tracking each and every one of us, but what could they've possibly gained by only tracking pretentious Apple iDiots.

Here's a good writeup on wheelie control:

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/9/14095/Motorcycle-Article/2012-Superbike-Traction-Control-Comparison.aspx

Totally opposite of what you want, but...

Hopefully they never find out how wrong they are.

Sometimes lessons are best learned the hard way.

I just hope those folks aren't mad when others' are as callous about it as they were before the lesson.

It's getting really funny in here now, with people believing their own unsubstantiated opinions as fact. I like the smell of my own musk too.

Good thing it's not political discussion, or some people would get labeled.

Bump for teh funniez. Childhood cancer and bankruptcy has me rolling.

Oh wait, no it doesn't.

It's an off-topic non-political laugh riot in here... man oh man.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC517636/

Of almost 25 000 bypass operations done in the United Kingdom each year, the average mortality for 2003 was 1.8%, slightly less than that reported by surgeons in the United States. Professor Bruce Keogh, president elect of the society and author of the report, however, acknowledged that American surgeons deal with a more complex case mix, with many more obese and diabetic patients than UK surgeons, which accounted for the difference in outcomes.

Doesn't seem like there's anything wrong w/ UK cardiac surgeons... seems more like a problem w/ the health quality of the patients.

Well you know what they say, one man's "funny joke" about healthcare is another's start to a political debate...

This isn't posted in the "Politics" section on the site. I can only assume its because the OP is illiterate.

Funny, but oh so true!