>> ^brycewi19:

Hey, that reminds me, isn't Torchwood coming to America starting soon?


About a month ago.

Hey, that reminds me, isn't Torchwood coming to America starting soon?

come on winston!
anecdotal evidence does not an argument make and you should know better and whats with the name calling?
this is not a political ideology problem but a greed and corruption problem which is more a personal flavor than a political one.
leftie,rightie,neolib,spendocrat,rethuglican...
who cares? they are all paid whores for their corporate and wall street masters and by the looks of your previous comments you have bought their line of tripe hook,line and sinker.

the fact of the matter is that after WWII america became a manufacturing juggernaut (mainly due to other manufacturing countries being leveled from bombings).our government dealt with the public in a pretty straight forward manner (relatively speaking of course).the unionized american work force set the standard and helped usher in the middle class,a hard fought standard i might add.this was the first appearance of the "middle class" and it was not just handed over but fought for tooth and nail by our grandparents and their parents.

the 60's were a time of great changes,not only politically but socially and marked a definitive change how our government dealt with the people and thus began the slow march we find ourselves in today.
consider this:
1.in 1972 the dollar was worth .78 cents on the dollar (22 cents interest per dollar)
in 2011 the dollar is worth .03 cents on the dollar.that loaf of bread didnt increase in price but rather the purchasing power of your dollar decreased.
2.in 1968 the phrase "for the public good" was removed from the corporate charter.hows that been working out for us?
3.in the 60's the middle class was roughly 48% of the american population and controlled 72% of americas total wealth.this was unheard of on a global scale,this sharing of wealth and was one of the main reasons why so many wished to come to america and take a swing at opportunity.fast forward to the present the "middle class" is roughly 11% of population and controls less than 10%.
4.while america still outproduces the rest of the world,has the largest and richest economy (yes,we still are the biggest).now lets consider the fact that the american worker produces more,works longer hours (on avg),yet receives less benefits in the forms of health care and retirement and the wages have stagnated since the 80's and when you factor in inflation,american workers are actually making LESS than their counterparts from 40 years ago.

let us all be clear on one thing.
capitalism,socialism or communism are NOT political ideologies but rather ECONOMIC systems and right now the system is rigged.
lowest tax rates in 40 years right along with interest rates.
this is NOT a coincidence.
you are being robbed.
at least the blacks KNEW they were slaves.
you on the other hand...remain clueless.
the fox is in the henhouse and people waste their time waxing poetic about political perfunctory.

@marbles
right on man.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^NetRunner:
Oh, and another thing to keep in mind, Joe Barton is the ranking Republican on the Energy Committee. If some terrible mistake on the part of the American people results in the Republicans taking the House, this guy will be chairman of the committee that sets energy policy.

The MMS, the organization responsible in regulating off sea drilling isn't under the energy department, it is under the department of the interior.


Not exactly -- MMS is in charge of approving leases, and enforcing the laws governing oil drilling. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has a huge jurisdiction, including pretty much everything having to do with commerce and energy, including writing the laws that govern oil drilling.

Being an unabashed whore for big oil like this seems like a bad person to have anywhere near the levers of power. Not to mention, Barton only went slightly beyond the general Republican party position on this topic -- the making BP pay into an escrow fund to be used to pay damage claims is evil, and wrong, and horrible, and scary, and a sign that fascism has come to America.

...but at the same time, they want to tell you that Obama's not doing enough about the crisis.

PS: I also said "energy policy", thinking "subsidies and deregulation for dirty energy", not "he's going to make oil drilling even less safe", though I wouldn't put it past someone who's so obviously big oil's lap dog.

patriotism is less about ideals, and more about controlling the masses now

"I'll get you the proof later" is at best saying "I don't know what I'm talking about"
more likely
BOLD FACE LIES

but, he's clean cut, white, and believes the same religious nonsense as me, so I'd still vote for him

'When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.'
- Sinclair Lewis

From The Other 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time
http://www.pajiba.com/guides/the-other-100-best-movie-quotes-of-all-time.php

100. “I love my dead gay son. —Heathers
99. “Where was ya, Wang? We was worried.” — Murder by Death
98. “Tell your girlfriend to shut up before I fuckstart her head.” —The Way of the Gun
97. “How am I not myself?” — I Heart Huckabees
96. “Welcome to Debbie Country.” — Singles
95. “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!”- - Zoolander
94. “Well, this piece is called ‘Lick My Love Pump.’” — Spinal Tap
93. “This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.” — Swingers
92. “I hate you, and I hate your ass face!” — Waiting for Guffman
91. “Back and to the left.” — JFK
90. “No, I said ‘allo,’ but that’s close enough.” — Labyrinth
89. “That’s bee-YOU-tee-ful, what is that, velvet?” — Coming to America
88. “It’s a moral imperative.” —Real Genius
87. “Go do that voodoo that you do so well!” — Blazing Saddles
86. “No dice, soldier.” —Brick
85. “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.” — Conan the Barbarian
84. “Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.” — Uncle Buck
83. “Do you concur?” “Damnit! Why didn’t I concur?!” — Catch Me If You Can
82. “The place where a U.S. soldier goes to defecate, relieve himself, open his bowel, shit, fart, dump, crap, and unload, is called the latrine. The la-trine, from the French.” — Biloxi Blues
81. “Big bottoms, big bottoms, talk about mudflaps, my girls got ‘em.” — Spinal Tap
80. “My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.” — Muriel’s Wedding
79. “Guns are for show. Knives are for pros.” — Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
78. “I shall call him Squishy. And he shall be mine. And he shall be MY Squishy.” — Finding Nemo
77. “I’ll sleep with you for a meatball.” —Victor/Victoria
76. “Follow me, or perish, sweater monkeys.” — Bring it On
75. “What’s a nubian?” — Chasing Amy
74. “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster by your side, kid.” — Star Wars
73. “You’ve got red on you.” — Shaun of the Dead
72. “I touched the earth, and he loved me back.” — Secretary
71. “Not you, fat Jesus.” — The Hangover
70. “This pile of shit has a thousand eyes.” — Stand By Me
69. “Oh God, not another fucking beautiful day.” —White Mischief
68. “She’s been fucked more times than she’s had a hot meal.” — Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
67. “I can’t believe I just gave my panties to a geek.” — Sixteen Candles
66. “It’s a veg-e-ta-ble.” —My Blue Heaven
65. “Goddammit, I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good! ” — War Games
64. “I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?” — Grosse Pointe Blank
63. “Now, you’ve got a corpse in a car, minus a head, in a garage. Take me to it.” — Pulp Fiction
62. “Ever since I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster.” — Goodfellas
61. “Wolfman has nards!” — Monster Squad
60. “He’s an angel. He’s an angel straight from heaven!” — Raising Arizona
59. “Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.” — High Anxiety
58. “Somebody’s got to go back and get a shitload of dimes.” — Blazing Saddles
57. “You idiots! These are not them! You’ve captured their stunt doubles!” — Spaceballs
56. “Bratwurst? Aren’t we the optimist?” —10 Things I Hate About You
55. “Sabrina, don’t just stare at it, eat it.” — American Psycho
54. “I take your fucking bullets!” - -Scarface
53. “I’m kind of a big deal.” — Anchorman
52. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it rains.” — Bull Durham
51. “We deal in lead, friend.” — The Magnificent Seven
50. “I don’t know, I mostly just hurt people.” —Alien Resurrection
49. “Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.” — Better Off Dead
48. “All every woman really wants, be it mother, senator, nun, is some serious deep-dickin’.” — Chasing Amy
47. “Let’s shag ass.” —The Royal Tenenbaums
46. “That’s atomized colloidal silver. It’s being pumped through the building’s air conditioning system, you cock-juggling thundercunt!” — Blade: Trinity
45. “I don’t understand. All my life I’ve been waiting for someone and when I find her, she’s … she’s a fish.” — Splash
44. “Demented and sad, but social.” — The Breakfast Club
43. “This is so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again.” — Ghost World
42. “GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!” — The Goonies
41. “Beautiful, naked, big-titted women just don’t fall out of the sky, you know.” — Dogma
40. “They’ve done studies, you know. Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.” — Anchorman
39. “Richie, would you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me… please?” — From Dusk til Dawn
38. “I’m hungry. Let’s get a taco.” — Reservoir Dogs
37. “They’re coming to get you, Barbara!” — Night of the Living Dead
36. “Maybe you’re the plucky comic relief.” — Galaxy Quest
35. “We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26…we were of that disposition.” — High Fidelity
34. “I used to fuck guys like you in prison” — Roadhouse
33. “Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you.” — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
32. “Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they’re fascist.” — Bull Durham
31. “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room! — Dr. Strangelove
30. “Shut the fuck up, Donny.” — The Big Lebowski
29. “If God did not want them shorn, he would not have made them sheep.” — The Magnificent Seven
28. “He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man. I mean, I’m afraid it came as a great shock to him when he died.” — Clue
27. “Nobody fucks with the Jesus.” — The Big Lebowski
26. “Meet me in Montauk.” — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
25. “Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?” — Heathers
24. “That’s just the way it crumbles … cookie wise.” - The Apartment
23. “Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.” — The Rock
22. “Why didn’t somebody tell me my ass was so big? — Spaceballs
21. “I aim to misbehave.” — Serenity
20. “People are so stupid I can’t bear to be around them anymore.” —Imaginary Heroes
19. “Fuck my cock!” — Wet Hot American Summer
18. “I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” — The Big Lebowski
17. “The swan ate my baby!” — Drop Dead Gorgeous
16. “I’m gonna punch you in the ovary, that’s what I’m gonna do. A straight shot, right to the babymaker.” — Anchorman
15. “My grammy never gave gifts. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.” — Annie Hall
14. “The Hammer is my penis.” — Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
13. “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” — Almost Famous
12. “SQUIRREL!” — Up
11. “Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive.” — Airplane
10. “Inconceivable!” — The Princess Bride
9. “I’ve been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I’ve come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.” — High Fidelity
8. “My God. I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.” — Fight Club
7. “You’re killin’ me Smalls!” — The Sandlot
6. “I was born a poor black child.” — The Jerk
5. “Ray, next time someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!” — Ghostbusters
4. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” — The Shawshank Redemption
3. “I want my two dollars!” — Better Off Dead
2. “Son, you got a panty on your head.” — Raising Arizona
1. “It ain’t white boy day is it?” — True Romance

>> ^HollywoodBob:I think the most frustrating part is that we have a large number of foreign doctors, that get their education in their home nation, usually at little to no cost to themselves and then come to America where they can reap the rewards of our extravagant healthcare system. It's not fair to their home nations that incurred the costs of their education, or to the doctors here that made a large monetary investment to get their education in our also exhorbinantly costly university system.


As a student studying foreign medicine I'd like to set myself as an example of someone who's getting USA Financial Aid in order to study abroad. It's not my fault that an education costs 5-6 TIMES as much (that's right, 5x-6x) in America than it does for me in Poland.

The reason that doctor's leave their "home nations" is because doctors there have a salary which is SIGNIFICANTLY lower, even if you adjust living expenses. This leads to lower quality health-care because the doctor's don't get paid enough to care about that lab result, or doesn't have the time to run that test because he has to try to make money else-where. It also leads to rampant bribery from families to doctors who want to take care of their sick family member.

>> ^TickTock:
I like this guy! You Americans better watch out I think your next president might be Mr. Weiner.


We could do a whole lot worse.

I'll probably get derided for saying this but, I'm so sick of hearing "The doctors don't get paid enough as it is." and similar comments about hospitals not getting paid enough also. As someone who works in the service field, and has had direct access to multi-million dollar estates owned by doctors, I can tell you that they would be making plenty of money if they were getting half the compensation that they currently do.

It's time Americans get over their obsession with wealth. When people become doctors to get rich, rather than to help people, there's something wrong with our society.

I think the most frustrating part is that we have a large number of foreign doctors, that get their education in their home nation, usually at little to no cost to themselves and then come to America where they can reap the rewards of our extravagant healthcare system. It's not fair to their home nations that incurred the costs of their education, or to the doctors here that made a large monetary investment to get their education in our also exhorbinantly costly university system.

I don't want to pay for the health care of others if they willfully chose to ignore healthy life choices. If you stuff your face full of Doritoes every day, I don't want to pay for whatever problems come about because of that. If you drink booze or smoke all the time, and you get screwed up cuz of that, I don't want to help you either.

But if you were hit by a car, born with some problem, or catch some disease you had no control over... then I like the idea of paying for your care.

Also, I would prefer to pay for the health care of poor people in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia, more than the people in say, my own country, the United States. So I'd rather not have national health care, but global health care, if I had to choose between the two. I also think that a national health care system will strengthen immigration restrictions in the US, which I think is a bad thing. I like the idea of an America full of opportunities for the poor people of the world. But if we have national health care, it's VERY likely that immigrants will have a harder time coming to America, because we'll see them as a drain on the health care system. (heck, one of the primary reasons we don't have national health care already is because of how many white conservatives view blacks/latinos/native americans as drains on their wallets already.)

Physics? I'm confused. Evolution? I'm confused. Calculus? I'm confused. Chemistry? I'm confused!!!!

Come on, America. All we need is the bible and simple hand tools. Think of the children!

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Don't assume political declarations and recriminations is hatred. Talk is talk.

Arab leaders all claimed what Israel has done was horrible and so on and so forth, yet they all came down on any peaceful protests in support of Gaza in their own nations. This is all used to release steam in the population by the Arab leaders, because these leaders are fighting against its own citizenry.

Arab people are sick of the hypocrisy where Saudi Wahhabists wax lyrical about the infidel America in their mosques under the all seeing gaze of the Royal family, but then keep silent when the so called 'infidel' comes to shake hands with the Princes. They didn't even make Rice wear a veil!

Not one of the Arab governments said anything about the occupation in Iraq nor have they tried to help in any constructive way. The same applies to Israel, everyone knows the political back bone of Israel comes from America but has any arab state have anything be the most cordial relationships with the US?

Hypocritical political actions are the norm of Arab leaders. I mean hell they had a economic summit and a Gaza summit within a week of Gaza. No concrete actions or declarations came from either other then the usual political promises of throwing more money at the problem.

I'm not comfortable with your sentence. English grammar sucks. You mean to say sugarcane comes from America?

change we can believe in.

the US is already 50% of the way to the USSR. come on America we can get there if we try. Yes we can!

London, Lithuania, magical places to my ears.

You wouldn't believe how many red-state Americans still consider Europe as a third-world collection of countries.

"Everybody wants to come to America!" they say.

Now I'm really curious about Lithuania. That's one of those places that always seems to fly under the radar of current events.